A New Professorship in HebrewSource: The Biblical World, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1894), p. 49Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3135410 .

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A NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN HEBREW.

A new Professorship in Hebrew and Biblical Literature was founded this year at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. President J. H. Harris an- nounced last year that such a department was needed and must come, and through his personal efforts an endowment fund was started, to equip it. By action of the Board of Trustees last June the chair was established, and Rev. Lincoln Hulley, Fellow in Semitics in the University of Chicago, was called to it. Work has begun this year under the most favorable circumstances. The catalogue of Bucknell says: "The aim of the department is to impart (I) the elements of Hebrew, (2) correct methods of Bible study, and (3) an appreci- ation of the forms and subject matter of Hebrew literature." The courses in English Bible will be supplemented by lectures on the literature of the Bible, Hebrew life and thought, Hebrew institutions, Hebrew schools of thought, the types of Hebrew literature, literary forms of expression, great men, ideas, and movements in Hebrew history, and the influence of the Eng- lish Bible on English institutions and civilization.

The courses in the department are elective for seniors and juniors through- out the year. They will include an inductive study of Hebrew, extending through two quarters, five hours a week, and (for this year) studies in the Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, Prophecy, and selected New Testament epis- tles five hours a week. For the Winter quarter eighteen seniors, four juniors, and one graduate student, twenty-three in all, have elected Hebrew. Eleven seniors, two juniors, and one graduate students, twenty-two in all, have elected English Bible.

Professor Lincoln Hulley, a graduate of Bucknell and Harvard, and for- merly an instructor in Bucknell, is known in Pennsylvania as a man of energy and scholarship. He began his Semitic training in the summer schools of the American Institute of Sacred Literature, and has since continued it as a fellow in the University of Chicago and as an instructor in the Institute of Sacred Literature.

The general verdict in Pennsylvania is that in this matter Bucknell has taken a step forward. She is fast winning recognition among graduate schools for quality of work and progressive scholarship, and she has the dis- tinction of being among the first to respond to the awakening in Hebrew study.

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