BIBLE; English.

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The Holy Bible Presentation copy for Robert Scott, Dean of Rochester, and signed by Benjamin Jowett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Norman Macleod Ferrers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The recipient was a classical scholar and co-author of the Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon. The presentation links two leading figures at the intersection of biblical scholarship and classical learning.Jowett, the master of Balliol, was an influential yet controversial Anglican theologian who advocated for applying modern historical and philological methods to the study of Scripture. His involvement in the Essays and Reviews controversy placed him at the centre of debates over biblical authority and interpretation.

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