R. K. Harrison Explained

Roland Kenneth Harrison
Birth Date:	4 August 1920
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Professor of Old Testament Studies
Spouse:	Kathleen (nee Beattie)
Children:	three
Alma Mater:	University of London (PhD)
Thesis Year:	1952
Workplaces:	Clifton College Huron College Wycliffe College
Notable Works:	Introduction to the Old Testament (1969)

Roland Kenneth Harrison (4 August 1920 – 2 May 1993) was an Old Testament scholar.

Background and career

Harrison studied at the University of London (B.D., 1943; M.Th., 1947, Ph.D., 1952) and taught at Clifton College, Bristol from 1947 to 1949, before his appointment as Hellmuth Professor of Old Testament Studies at Huron College, University of Western Ontario. In 1960 he became Professor of Old Testament Studies at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, where he stayed until his retirement in 1986.^[1]

Harrison is best known^[2] for his Introduction to the Old Testament (1969) but wrote many other books, including commentaries on Leviticus and Jeremiah and Lamentations . He was on the Executive Review Committee of the New King James Version.^[3] and translated several of the Minor Prophets in the New International Version.^[4] Together with Merrill Unger, he edited The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary.

In 1988, a Festschrift was published in his honour, Israel's apostasy and restoration: essays in honor of Roland K Harrison . Edited by Avraham Gileadi, it included contributions by Clarence Hassell Bullock, Eugene Merrill and Bruce Waltke.

Harrison married Kathleen Beattie in 1945, and they had three children.

Tremper Longman described him as "one of the most competent Old Testament evangelical scholars today."^[5]

Works

Books

• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . Biblical Hebrew . London . English Universities Press . 1955 . 1st .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The Dead Sea Scrolls: an introduction . Harper Torchbooks, Cloister library (TB84) . New York . Harper . 1961 . 900218 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Archaeology of the Old Testament . Teach Yourself Books . London . English Universities Press . 1963 . 4998618 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Healing Herbs of the Bible . registration . Leiden . Brill . 1966 . 1062180 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Introduction to the Old Testament: with a comprehensive review of Old Testament studies and a special supplement on the Apocrypha . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 1969 . 978-0-802-83107-1 . 51934 . 1st .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Old Testament Times . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 1970 . 978-0-802-83334-1 . 80299 . 1st .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Jeremiah and Lamentations: an introduction and commentary . Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries . Downers Grove, IL . Inter-Varsity Press . 1973 . 978-0-851-11626-6 . 700447 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Biblical Hebrew . Teach Yourself Books . London . Hodder and Stoughton . 1974 . 978-0-340-05794-0 . 5355422 . Reprint .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Waltke . Bruce K. . Bruce K. Waltke . Guthrie . Donald . Donald Guthrie (theologian) . Fee . Gordon D. . Gordon D. Fee . Biblical Criticism: historical, literary, and textual . Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives . Grand Rapids, MI . Zondervan . 1978 . 9780310373513 . 4194527 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Leviticus: an introduction and commentary . Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries . Downers Grove, IL . Inter-Varsity Press . 1980 . 978-0-877-84253-8 . 6708718 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Blaiklock . E. M. . E. M. Blaiklock . The New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology . Regency Reference Library . Grand Rapids, MI. Zondervan . 1983 . 978-0-310-21250-8 . 8727822 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Major Cities of the Biblical World . Nashville, TN . Thomas Nelson Publisher . 1985 . 978-0-840-77520-7 . 12050326 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Encyclopedia of Biblical and Christian Ethics . Nashville, TN . Thomas Nelson Publisher . 1987 . 978-0-840-74950-5 . 13822457 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The New Unger's Bible dictionary (by Merrill F. Unger) . Chicago, IL . Moody Press . 1988 . 978-0-802-49037-7 . 18069861 . 3rd revision .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Numbers . Wycliffe Exegetical Commentary . Chicago, IL . Moody Press . 1990 . 978-0-802-49261-6 . 20454067 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Youngblood . Ronald F. . Ronald F. Youngblood . Bruce . F. F. . F. F. Bruce . Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary . Nashville, TN . Thomas Nelson Publisher . 1995 . 978--0-840-72071-9 . 31607052 .
• Book: Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . Old Testament Times: a social, political, and cultural context . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Books . 2005 . 978-0-801-01286-0 . 61315112 . Revised & Colour Illustrated.

Articles and chapters

• Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The Son of Man . The Evangelical Quarterly . 23 . 1 . 1951 . 46–50 .
• Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The Problem of Suffering and the Book of Job . . 25 . 1 . 1953 . 18–27 .
• Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The Biblical Problem of Hyssop . The Evangelical Quarterly . 26 . 4 . 1954 . 218–224 .
• Harrison . Roland Kenneth . 3 . The Mandrake and the Ancient World . The Evangelical Quarterly . 28 . 2 . 1956 . 87–92 .

Festschrift

• Book: Gileadi . Avraham . Avraham Gileadi . Israel's Apostasy and Restoration: essays in honor of Roland K. Harrison . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Book House . 1988 . 978-0-801-03830-3 . 18289791 .

See also

• Olaf M. Norlie  - whose Simplified New Testament was published along with Harrison's The Psalms for Today in the same binding

Notes and References

1. Book: Taylor, J. Glen. Bible Interpreters of the 20th Century. 1999. Baker. Walter A. Elwell and J. D. Weaver. Grand Rapids. 314. R. K. Harrison.
2. Taylor, 312.
3. http://www.bible-researcher.com/nkjv.html New King James Version
4. Taylor, 316.
5. [Tremper Longman]