F. C. Conybeare

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Born	(1856-09-14)14 September 1856 Coulsdon, Surrey
Died	9 January 1924(1924-01-09) (aged 67)
Occupation(s)	Orientalist, theologian, writer

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, FBA (14 September 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.

Biography

Conybeare was born in Coulsdon, Surrey, the third son of a barrister, John Charles Conybeare, and grandson of the geologist William Daniel Conybeare.^[1] He took an interest in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an Old Catholic organization, becoming a Bishop in it in 1894. Also in the 1890s he wrote a book on the Dreyfus case, as a Dreyfusard, and translated the Testament of Solomon and other early Christian texts. As well, he did influential work on Barlaam and Josaphat. He was an authority on the Armenian Church.^[2]

From 1904 to 1915 he was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, founded in 1899.

One of his best-known works is Myth, Magic, and Morals from 1909, later reissued under the title The Origins of Christianity. This has been read both as a strong criticism of the Jesus myth theory, making Conybeare a supporter of the historical Jesus; but also as an attack on aspects of orthodox Christianity itself. He returned later in 1914 to make a direct assault on leading proponents of the time of the Jesus-myth theory.

He died in 1924 aged 68 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.^[3]

His wife Mary Emily was a translator of Wilhelm Scherer.

See also

• Paulicianism
• Apology of Aristides

Works

Books

• Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion by Hermann Lotze (1892) translator
• The Armenian Apology and Acts of Apollonius, and Other Monuments of Early Christianity (1896)
• The Demonology of the New Testament. I (1896)
• About the Contemplative Life; or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtues, by Philo Judaeus (1895) editor
• The Key of Truth, a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia (1898)
• The Story of Ahikar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic Versions (1898) with J. Rendel Harris and Agnes Smith Lewis
• The Dreyfus Case (1899)
• Rituale Armenorum Being the Administration of the Sacraments & the Breviary Rites of the Armenian Church Together with the Greek Rites of Baptism & Epiphany edited from the oldest manuscripts (1905) with Arthur John Maclean
• Selections from the Septuagint According to the Text of Swete (1905) with St. George Stock, later as A Grammar of Septuagint Greek online
• The Armenian version of Revelation, Apocalypse of John the Divine (1907) editor
• Myth, Magic, and Morals: A Study of Christian Origins (1909)
• History of New Testament Criticism (1910)
• The Ring of Pope Xystus, Together with the Prologue of Rufinus (1910)
• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Philostratus (1912) translator, Loeb Classical Library, two volumes
• A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1913)
• The Historical Christ; or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith (1914)
• Russian Dissenters (1921)
• The Armenian Church: Heritage and Identity. (St. Vartan Press: New York, 2001) edited by the Rev. Nerses Vrej Nersessian

Articles

• "The Testament of Solomon" (translation), Jewish Quarterly Review (October 1898)
• "The History of Christmas", The American Journal of Theology 3 (1899), 1–22
• "Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 AD Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine" (translation), English Historical Review 25 (1910), 502–517
• "The Philosophical Aspects of the Doctrine of Divine Incarnation" Jewish Quarterly Review (July 1895)
• "The Demonology of the New Testament. I" Jewish Quarterly Review July 1896
• "Christian Demonology. II" Jewish Quarterly Review October 1896
• "Christian Demonology. III" Jewish Quarterly Review April 1897
• The Eusebian Form of the Text of Matthew 28:19 Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (a journal) 2 (1901): 275–88
• "The Survival of Animal Sacrifices inside the Christian Church" The American Journal of Theology January 1903
• "The History of the Greek Church" The American Journal of Theology July 1903

References

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