Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent was an American Old Testament scholar.

Biography

Kent was born at Palmyra, New York, and educated at Yale. He studied at the University of Berlin.
He was an instructor at the University of Chicago 1893-95 and then professor of Biblical literature at Brown. After 1901, he was Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale. In 1920, Kent toured the University of Michigan and advocated for a nonsectarian Michigan School of Religion.
Kent was the founding president of the American Academy of Religion from 1910 to 1925.

Writings

Outlines of Hebrew History
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A History of the Hebrew People
A History of the Jewish People during the Babylonian, Persian, and Greek Periods
The Messages of Israel's Lawgivers
Narratives of the Beginnings of Hebrew History: From the Creation to [the Establishment of the Hebrew Kingdom]
Israel's historical and Biographical Narratives
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Israel's Laws and Traditional Precedents
The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History
The Founders and Rulers of United Israel: From the Death of Moses to the Division of the Hebrew Kingdom
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The Makers and Teachers of Judaism
Biblical Geography and History
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The Songs, Hymns, and Prayers of the Old Testament
, with J. W. Jenks
''The Social Teachings of the Prophets and Jesus''
National Council on Religion in Higher Education

In 1922, he helped found the National [Council of Schools of Religion], an organization that would two years later become the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, which through conference sponsorship and its Kent Fellows scholarship program played a significant role in church-university activities. In the early 1960s it merged with the Danforth fellows program and became the Society for Religion in Higher Education. In 1975 it was renamed the Society for Values in Higher Education.