Charles Fox Burney

Rev. Charles Fox Burney (4 November 1868 – 15 April 1925) was Biblical scholar at Oxford University, England. Charles was the son of Charles Burney, Paymaster Chief Royal Navy and his wife Eleanor Norton, daughter of the Rev. W. A. Norton, rector of Alderton and Eye, Suffolk. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and St. John's College, Oxford. In 1893 he was elected Senior Scholar of St. John's and Lecturer in Hebrew and became a Fellow o... more

Rev. Charles Fox Burney (4 November 1868 – 15 April 1925) was Biblical scholar at Oxford University, England. Charles was the son of Charles Burney, Paymaster Chief Royal Navy and his wife Eleanor Norton, daughter of the Rev. W. A. Norton, rector of Alderton and Eye, Suffolk. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and St. John's College, Oxford. In 1893 he was elected Senior Scholar of St. John's and Lecturer in Hebrew and became a Fellow of St John's in 1899 and Vice President in 1900, 1906, 1910 and 1911. In June, 1914, Dr. Burney became the Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, and was also elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1919. He published several works on biblical history. In “Israel’s settlement in Canaan”, he brought much new or newly-applied material especially from Babylonian sources to explain Israel’s early residence in Canaan, and a major contribution was the theory that Yahweh (Jehovah) was at an early period an Amorite deity. In “The... less