Skinner, John

English Presbyterian; b. at Inverurie (14 m. n. w. of Aberdeen), Aberdeenshire, Scotland, July 18, 1851 He was educated at the University of Aberdeen (M.A., 1876), Free Church College, Aberdeen (1876-77), New College, Edinburgh (1877-80), and the universities of Leipsic (1876) and Gottingen (1877). He was Hebrew tutor at New College, Edinburgh (1879-80); held Free Church ministries at St. Fergus, Banffshire (1880-86), and Kelso, Roxburghshire (1886-90); and since 1890 has been professor of Hebrew and apologetics in Westminster College (the theological college of the Presbyterian Church of England), Cambridge, England. He has writen Historical Connection between the Old and New Testaments (Edinburgh, 1899); and has edited Ezekiel for The Expositor’s Bible (London, 1895); Isaiah for The Cambridge Bible for Schools (2 vols., Cambridge, 1896-98); and Genesis for the International Critical Commentary (1910).