Editing Thomas Kelly Cheyne (section)

==Biography==
He was born in [[London]] and educated at [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School, London]], and [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]. Subsequently, he studied German theological methods at [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]]. He was ordained in 1864 and held a fellowship at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], from 1868 to 1882. During the earlier part of this period he stood alone in the university as a teacher of the main conclusions of [[Old Testament]] criticism at that time. In 1881 he was presented to the [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rectory]] of Tendring, in [[Essex, England|Essex]], and in 1884 he was made a member of the Old Testament revision company. He resigned the living of Tendring in 1885 on his appointment to be [[Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture]], which carried with it a canonry at [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]]. In 1889 he delivered the [[Bampton lectures]] at Oxford. In 1908 he resigned his professorship.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly |volume=6 |page=116}}</ref>

In June 1901, he received an honorary [[Doctor of Divinity|doctorate of Divinity]] from the [[University of Glasgow]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-glasgow-university-jubilee/131294008/ |date=14 June 1901 |title=Glasgow University Jubilee |page=10 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |publication-place=London |issue=36481 |access-date=2024-01-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and in March 1902 he was awarded the degree [[Doctor of Letters]] (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-university-intelligence/138118871/ |newspaper=[[The Times]] |publication-place=London |title=University Intelligence |date=15 March 1902 |page=12 |issue=36716 |access-date=2024-01-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1882 he married Frances Godfrey<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1841–1915), biblical scholar|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32395|access-date=2021-09-21| date=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32395| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref> and she died in 1907.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1841–1915), biblical scholar|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32395|access-date=2021-09-21| date=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32395| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref> Cheyne wrote a glowing a review of the work published by [[Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne|Elizabeth Gibson]] in 1911. The review was in the progressive ''Christian Commonwealth.'' Gibson had published about twenty books of poetry or prose and she was an established writer''.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Greenway |first=Judy |title=Gibson [married name Cheyne], Elizabeth [known as Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne] (1869–1931), poet and social activist |date=2023-07-13 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-95466 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=2023-08-24 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.95466 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription }}</ref>'' Their common interest fueled a whirlwind romance that resulted in their marriage in the Cornish village of [[Mawnan]] in Cornwall on 28 August 1911. Afterwards She joined Cheyne at his home in Oxford.<ref name=":0" />

He consistently urged in his writings the necessity of a broad and comprehensive study of the Scriptures in the light of literary, historical and scientific considerations. His publications include commentaries on the ''Prophets and Hagiographa'', as well as lectures and addresses on theological subjects. He was a joint editor of the ''[[Encyclopaedia Biblica]]'' (London, 1899-1903), a work embodying the more advanced conclusions of English biblical criticism. In the introduction to his ''Origin of the Psalter'' (London, 1891) he gave an account of his development as a critical scholar.<ref name="EB1911" /> His publications include translations, commentaries, and supplemental research.

He became a member of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] by 1912.<ref name="Sohrab1913">{{cite web |author=David Merrick |year=2011 |page=31 Dec 1912 |title=Abdu'l-Baha in the UK, 1913 (Sohrab's Diary) |url=http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/misc/sohrab-diary-uk-1913.pdf}}</ref>
"If there has been any Prophet in recent times", he wrote in his 1914 work ''The Reconciliation of Races and Religions'', "it is to [[Bahá'u'lláh]] that we must go. Character is the final judge. Bahá'u'lláh was a man of the highest class – that of Prophets."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cheyne |first1=Thomas Kelly |title=The Reconciliation of Races and Religions |date=1914}}</ref>

His second wife's 1912 book ''The Voice of One Crying'' was "arranged in cycles by T. K. C. i.e. Thomas Kelly Cheyne".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne (1869-1931) : Some Biographical and Bibliograpical Notes. {{!}} Hurqalya Publications: Center for Shaykhī and Bābī-Bahā'ī Studies |url=https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/3771 |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=hurqalya.ucmerced.edu}}</ref>