Norman Snaith

Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Education and early life 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, 1934 The distinctive ideas of the Old Testament, 1944 Notes on the Hebrew text of 2 Samuel, XVI-XIX (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 The Book of Job (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 Notes on the Hebrew text of Job, I-VI (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 The Psalms; a short introduction (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 Notes on the Hebrew text of Isaiah, chapters XXVIII-XXXII (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 Notes on the Hebrew text of Jeremiah, chapters III, VII and XXXI (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 Notes in the Hebrew text of Jonah (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1945 The Book of Amos; pt. 1: Introduction (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1946 The Book of Amos; pt. 2: Translation and notes (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1946 Notes on the Hebrew text of Genesis I-VIII (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1947 The Jewish New Year festival, 1948 The Jews from Cyrus to Herod, 1949 Notes on the Hebrew text of Genesis XL-XLIV (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1950 Hymns of the Temple, 1951 Mercy and sacrifice; a study of the book of Hosea, 1953 Notes on the Hebrew Text of I Kings XVII–XIX and XXI–XXII (Study Notes on Bible Books), 1954 Amos, Hosea and Micah (Epworth Preacher's Commentaries), 1956 (British and Foreign Bible Society) Hebrew Old Testament, 1958 Leviticus and Numbers (The Century Bible, New Edition), 1967 The Book of Job; its origin and purpose, 1968