Edwin Palmer (18 July 1824 – 17 October 1895) was an English churchman and academic,
Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford from 1870 to 1878 and
archdeacon of Oxford from 1878 to his death.
Life
His father William Jocelyn Palmer was rector of
Mixbury
Mixbury is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about southeast of Brackley in Northamptonshire.
Manor
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in
Oxfordshire. His mother Dorothea was daughter of the Rev. William Roundell of
Gledstone,
Yorkshire
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; there were six sons and four daughters, and
William Palmer and
Roundell Palmer were his two eldest brothers.
At Oxford, he met
William Stubbs
William Stubbs (21 June 182522 April 1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford between 1866 and 1884. He was Bishop of Chester from 1884 to 1889 and Bishop of O ...
, who was his future bishop when he became archdeacon, at the Hermes debating society, and they became lifelong friends. As a Fellow of
Balliol College
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...
he was one of an influential group of liberal theologians in the college:
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian, an Anglican cleric, and a translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of B ...
,
T. H. Green and
William Lambert Newman were others. With
Edward Charles Wickham
Edward Charles Wickham was Dean of Lincoln from 1894 to 1910. Born on 7 December 1834, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, being appointed a ''Probationary Scholar'' at 17 and eventually rose to be a Fellow. He was Headmaster o ...
he started the intercollegiate lectures in the university.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was his guest at Balliol in 1866. In 1870, with his Latin professorship, he became a Fellow of
Corpus Christi College.
He set off on travel for his
ealthduring the winter of 1849/50 with his brother William in the
Levant
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, meeting
Alexandros Mavrokordatos in
Athens
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and visiting
Smyrna
Smyrna ( ; grc, Σμύρνη, Smýrnē, or , ) was a Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence, and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to promi ...
to see
Yevfimy Putyatin
Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin (russian: Евфи́мий Васи́льевич Путя́тин; November 8, 1803 – October 16, 1883), also known as was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. His diplomatic mission to Japan r ...
. They went on to
Damascus and
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. Returning, they visited
Mount Athos. The trip ended back in England in August 1850, with Edwin Palmer in better health.
New Testament scholar
In 1881 Palmer edited ''The Greek Testament With the Readings Adopted by the Revisers of the Authorised Version '', producing a Greek
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...
text representing the basis of the ''
Revised Version''. In the 1881 Revision it was stated "A revision of the Greek text was the necessary foundation of our work; but it did not fall within our province to construct a continuous and complete Greek text." Palmer's text was a ''post facto'' text, designed to meet the need of showing the Greek behind the decisions of the English committee, but worked up after completion of the English version of the New Testament rather than being the Greek text actually translated by the Committee. Later parallel editions from Oxford and Cambridge included a Received Text edition across from the Palmer edition. Palmer was assisted by
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...
. The 1910 edition by
Alexander Souter reproduces Palmer's text.
According to a booklet co-authored by Palmer, "Let a competent reader examine the Greek text as set forth in the Oxford edition of Archdeacon Palmer.... He will find, we believe, if he looks through the whole volume, not more than sixty-four readings in the Greek text of the Revisers which are to be found in the text of Dr.
rooke Foss Westcott and Dr.
enton John AnthonyHort Hort may refer to:
People
* Erik Hort (born 1987), American soccer player
* F. J. A. Hort (1828–1892), Irish theologian
* Greta Hort (1903–1967), Danish-born literature professor
* Josiah Hort (c. 1674–1751), English clergyman of the Chu ...
, and are not to be found in the Received Text or in the text of
arl
ARL may refer to:
Military
* US Navy hull classification symbol for repair ship
* Admiralty Research Laboratory, UK
* United States Army Research Laboratory
* ARL 44, a WWII French tank
Organizations
* Aero Research Limited, a UK adhesives comp ...
Lachmann or
onstantin vonTischendorf Tischendorf is a German surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname'').
The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usu ...
or
amuel Prideaux Tregelles."
Family
He married Henrietta, daughter of Rev. James Riddell;
Edwin James Palmer was their son, and they had two daughters.
References
*Robin Wheeler (2006), ''Palmer's Pilgrimage: the life of William Palmer of Magdalen''
Google Books
Notes
External links
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1824 births
1895 deaths
Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Oxford
Corpus Christi Professors of Latin