Frederic G. Kenyon

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Frederic G. Kenyon


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
January 15, 1863

Died
August 23, 1952


Sir Frederic George Kenyon was a British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar.
He was born in London, the son of John Robert Kenyon, the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford. After graduating B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was later a fellow, he joined the British Museum in 1889 and rose to be its Director and Principal Librarian by 1909. He was knighted for his services in 1912 and remained at his post until 1931.
Kenyon was a noted scholar of ancient languages, and made a lifelong study of the Bible, especially the New Testament as an historical text. His book Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (1895) shows one way that Egyptian papyri and other evidence from archeology can corroborate the narrative of his
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Books and Readers in Ancien...

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The Story of the Bible

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The Letters of Elizabeth Ba...

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Our Bible & the Ancient Man...

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The Bible and Modern Schola...

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