Royden Keith Yerkes (June 22, 1881 — June 21, 1964) was an Episcopal priest and theologian. Yerkes was born in

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. Yerkes was ordained in 1906. He received his B.A. (1903) M.A. (1911) and Ph.D. (1918) from the

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. He served as head of the graduate department of religious history at

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from 1918 to 1935, and was a professor of theology at the

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. He was also an instructor at

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Theological Seminary. He was

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of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1931. Yerkes died in

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, where he had been director of religious education for the

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from 1947 until his 1952 retirement. He wrote ''Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism'', a monograph on the origins of religious sacrifice translated into French in 1955.Reviews of ''Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism'': * * * * * * * *

Works

*
What is a Deaconess?
' (no date) from Project Canterbury *
The History of St. Luke's Church, Germantown from the Time of the Permanent Establishment of Church Services in Germantown in 1811 to the Celebration of the Centennial
' (1912)
Some Notes on the Use of אל in Genesis
" ''Journal of Biblical Literature''], Volume 31 (1912) * ''The Holy Communion: A Study in the Christ-life'' (1916) *
The Lucianic version of the Old Testament as illustrated from Jeremiah 1-3
' (dissertation,

, 1918)
The Unclean Animals of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
" Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. XIV, No. 1. (July 1923) *''Three Addresses Delivered before the Clergy Conference of the Diocese of New York at Lake Mahopac on October 19th and 20th, 1932'' *''The Oxford Movement and the Catholic Revival'' (Church Club of Philadelphia, 1933, 16pp) *"A Priest's Reply to a Scientist: The Religion of to-morrow" in ''

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'' (March 1933) *''The Christian Faith in the Present-day World'' (1941) *
Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism
' (1952) *''Le sacrifice dans la religion grecque et romaine et dans le judaisme primitif'' (1955) *''Revised Form for the Prayer of Consecration in the American Prayer Book'' (1955) *
Why Closed Communion
' (Holy Cross Publications, 1956, 18pp) *

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