Donald Foster Hudson Explained
Donald Foster Hudson (1916–2003) was a British missionary in India and the author of Teach Yourself New Testament Greek.
History
Hudson was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 29 April 1916 to John and Kate. He was enlisted for overseas missionary work with the BMS World Mission and was sent for theological studies to the Regent's Park College, Oxford. He became ordained as a Baptist minister on 6 July 1940 and sailed for India the same year.
Hudson first served as a Missionary in Burma and later became Lecturer in New Testament at Serampore College (the only constituent College of the Senate of Serampore College}) from 1941 to 1964[3] along with M. P. John, his colleague who joined the college in 1947. Hudson and John tutored K. David, then pursuing postgraduate studies in Serampore College.[4]
In 1964 Hudson left India and was involved in pastoral roles in England among the Baptist fraternity. In 1997 he received Maundy money from Queen Elizabeth II in Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire, England. He was a member[5] of the Society for Biblical Studies in India.
Writings
Books
- Teach Yourself New Testament Greek
- Teach Yourself Bengali[6]
- The Life and Letters of Saint Paul[7]
Articles
- Diakonia and its Cognates in the New Testament[8]
- A Further Note on Philippians 2:6-11[9]
References
- Notes
Further reading
Notes and References
- John Hudson, Donald Foster HUDSON 1916-2003 [Heath 1927-1935]. Web site: Heath Old Boys Association Official Web Site . 2009-12-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718164054/http://www.heatholdboys.org.uk/obits/d_hudson.htm . 18 July 2011 . dmy .
- D. F. Hudson, Teach Yourself New Testament Greek English Universities Press, New York City, 1960. http://ncbible.info/MoodRes/Languages/TeachYourselfGreek-Hudson.pdf
- The Council of Serampore College, The Story of Serampore and its College, Fourth Edition 2005, Serampore. https://books.google.com/books?id=3zLPAAAAMAAJ&q=
- Cf. Wikipedia Article on M. P. John
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- D. F. Hudson, Teach Yourself Bengali, English Universities Press, New York, 1965. https://books.google.com/books?id=FjKINAAACAAJ&dq=
- D. F. Hudson, The Life and Letters of Saint Paul, Hodder & Stoughton, England, 1966. https://books.google.com/books?id=FWPBGwAACAAJ&dq=
- D. F. Hudson, Diakonia and its Cognates in the New Testament in Indian Journal of Theology, April–June 1965, Volume 14, Number 2, pp.138-147. Cited by Dhirendra Kumar Sahu in The Church of North India: a Historical and Systematic Theological Inquiry into an Ecumenical Ecclesiology, Volume 88 of Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums(Volume 88 of Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity), Approximation & Optimization, Peter Lang, Germany, 1994. p.278. https://books.google.com/books?cd=6&id=9pDYAAAAMAAJ&dq=
- D. F. Hudson, A Further Note on Philippians 2:6-11 in Expository Times LXXVII, 1965-66, p.29. Cited in Revue biblique, Volume 83, Ecole pratique d'études bibliques (Jerusalem), Ecole biblique et archéologique française, France, 1976. p.25. https://books.google.com/books?id=x7fYAAAAMAAJ&q=
