Author:William Robertson Smith

For authors with similar names, see William Smith.

William Robertson Smith
(1846–1894)

William Robertson Smith

Works

• Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, editor (1880-1889), with Thomas Spencer Baynes, and also an article author
• The Old Testament in the Jewish Church (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black 1881); second edition (London 1892).
• The Prophets of Israel and their place in history, to the close of the 8th century B.C. (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black 1882), reprinted with introduction and notes by T. K. Cheney (London: A. & C. Black 1895).
• Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia (Cambridge University 1885); second edition, with additional notes by the Author and by Professor Ignaz Goldziher, Budapest, and edited by Stanley A. Cook (London: A. & C. Black 1903); reprint 1963 Beacon Press, Boston.
• Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. Fundamental Institutions. First Series (London: Adam & Charles Black 1889); second edition, edited by J. S. Black (1894); reprint 1956 Meridian Library, New York.
• Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. Second and Third Series, edited with an introduction by John Day (Sheffield Academy 1995).

Pamphlets: Heresy Trial

• "Answer to the form of libel" (Edinburgh: Douglas 1878).
• "Additional answer to the libel" (Edinburgh: Douglas 1878).
• "Answer to the amended libel" (Edinburgh: Douglas 1879).
• "An open letter to principal Rainy" (Edinburgh: Douglas 1880).

Contributions to EB9

• "Angel," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 2) (1878)
• "Ark of the Covenant," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 2) (1878)
• "Baal," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)
• "Canticles," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 5) (1878)
• "Decalogue," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Eli," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 8) (1878)
• "Temple," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Tithes," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888) (in part)
• "Tobit, The Book of," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Preface," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 25) (1889) (Preface to the index.)

Contributions to DNB

• "Bedwell, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Contributions to EB1911

• "Baal," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Canticles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by another author)
• "Chronicles, Books of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "David (king of Judah)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Decalogue," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Eli," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Elijah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Elisha," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Eve," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with Thomas Kelly Cheyne)
• "Haggai," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Hosea," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Joel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Jubilee, Year of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Malachi," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mecca," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Medina," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Melchizedek," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Messiah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Owen Charles Whitehouse)
• "Micah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Moloch," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Nabataeans," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Nazarite," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Numeral," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Obadiah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Henry Wheeler Robinson)
• "Phylactery," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Priest," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Owen Charles Whitehouse)
• "Prophet," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part; updated by Owen Charles Whitehouse)
• "Reuchlin, Johann," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rameses," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Francis Llewellyn Griffith)
• "Ruth, Book of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Sabbath," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by Stanley Arthur Cook)
• "Salt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) Ancient History and Religious Symbolism
• "Teraphim," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Tyre," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Smith

• "Smith, William Robertson," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Smith, William Robertson," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)