Aspects of the Old Testament: The Bampton Lectures, 1897

by Robert Lawrence Ottley

Aspects of the Old Testament, the Bampton lectures for 1897, were presented as eight talks before the University of Oxford. In these lectures, Ottley's aim was to show that it is possible to regard as conclusive and to welcome many of the verdicts of the "higher criticism" of the Old Testament, without necessarily accepting what is merely conjectural and arbitrary.

About the Author:
Robert Lawrence Ottley Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford

468 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Robert Lawrence Ottley (2 September 1856 – 1 February 1933) was an English theologian.

He was the son of Lawrence Ottley, Canon of Ripon. He was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, and was educated by his sister Alice Ottley[2] and at King's School, Canterbury. The rest of his academic career up to 1933 was spent at Oxford. His undergraduate studies took place at Pembroke College, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 1905. He was tutor at Christ Church in 1881, and Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College from 1886. In 1890 he became Divinity Dean at Magdalen College. Then, in 1893 he became Principal of Pusey House. During 1903, he was appointed Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and also a Canon of Christ Church.