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Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942) was one of the leading Old Testament scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scottish church. As Free Church minister of Queen's Cross, Aberdeen (1882-92), Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at the Free Church College, Glasgow (1892-1910) and Principal of Aberdeen University (1910-1935) he popularised modern criticism of the Old Testament. He was determined to show how such an approach to the Bible was compatible with evangelical faith, a position that never sat easily with the confessional position of the Scottish church, and the story of Smith's life is an investigation into the relationship between biblical scholarship ...
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"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah Vol. 1" by George Adam Smith is a comprehensive and perceptive exam of the Book of Isaiah, a key prophetic work in the Old Testament. Smith, a Scottish theologian who wrote inside the past due nineteenth century, brings a wealth of understanding and extremely good analytical capabilities to the assignment of unraveling the subtleties of this biblical passage. In the primary volume of this comprehensive collection, Smith digs into the Book of Isaiah's early chapters, providing readers with a detailed information of the ancient, cultural, and theological context wherein these prophetic phrases were written. His commentary delves deeply into the poetic...