Norman Snaith
Norman Henry Snaith was a British Old Testament scholar and a professor at Wesley College, Leeds.
Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College.
Career
Snaith became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor of Old Testament at Wesley College in 1936. He became Principal of Wesley College in 1954, and retired in 1961. In 1957, Snaith was president of the Society for Old Testament Study.
Publications by Snaith
Studies in the Psalter, 1934The distinctive ideas of the Old Testament, 1944Notes on the Hebrew text of 2 Samuel, XVI-XIX, 1945The Book of Job, 1945Notes on the Hebrew text of Job, I-VI, 1945The Psalms; a short introduction, 1945Notes on the Hebrew text of Isaiah, chapters XXVIII-XXXII, 1945Notes on the Hebrew text of Jeremiah, chapters III, VII and XXXI, 1945Notes in the Hebrew text of Jonah, 1945The Book of Amos; pt. 1: Introduction, 1946The Book of Amos; pt. 2: Translation and notes, 1946Notes on the Hebrew text of Genesis I-VIII, 1947The Jewish New Year festival, 1948The Jews from Cyrus to Herod, 1949Notes on the Hebrew text of Genesis XL-XLIV, 1950Hymns of the Temple, 1951Mercy and sacrifice; a study of the book of Hosea, 1953Notes on the Hebrew Text of I Kings XVII–XIX and XXI–XXII, 1954Amos, Hosea and Micah, 1956Hebrew Old Testament, 1958Leviticus and Numbers, 1967The Book of Job; its origin and purpose, 1968