Hugh Anderson FRSE (1920–2003) was a theologian who served as Professor of the

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for over 20 years.

Life

He was born in Galston in Ayrshire on 18 May 1920 the son of Hugh Anderson and his wife Jeannie Muir. He was educated at Galston Primaty School then

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. He then studied Classics and Semitic Languages at

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. In the post-war period 1945/6 he was part of the Huts and Canteens Scheme in

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and Palestine before returning to Glasgow University to start lecturing on the Old Testament. In this period he gained his first doctorate (PhD) on the New Testament. In this same period he was also minister of Trinity Church in Pollockshields in Glasgow (destroyed by fire in 1988). In 1957 he left Scotland to become Professor of Biblical Criticism at Duke University in

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, USA. Much in demand, he preached at the

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in New York and at the

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. In 1966 he returned to Scotland as Professor of New Testament replacing Prof J S Stewart. In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died on 14 January 2003.

Publications

*''Jesus and Christian Origins'' (1964) *''Jesus'' (1968) *''The Gospel of Mark'' (1976)

Family

In 1945 he was married to Jean Goldie Torbit and they had three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Hugh 1920 births 2003 deaths People from Galston, East Ayrshire Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Edinburgh Scottish theologians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People educated at Kilmarnock Academy