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{{short description|American historian of religion and minister (1851–1931)}}
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'''George Foot Moore''' (October 15, 1851 – May 16, 1931) was an American historian of religion, author, professor, and Presbyterian minister.

==Life==
Moore was born in [[West Chester, Pennsylvania]], the son of Rev. William Eves Moore and Harriet Foot Moore.  He was educated at private schools, West Chester Academy and Wyer's School, entered [[Yale University|Yale College]] as a junior in 1870, then graduated from Yale in 1872,<ref name="Harvard">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TjBYAAAAYAAJ& The Harvard graduates' magazine, Volume 15]'' Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1907</ref> as a [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and member of the [[Skull and Bones]] society.<ref name="obituary">{{cite web | url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1930-31.pdf | title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1930-1931 | access-date=March 24, 2011 | date=1 December 1931 | publisher=Yale University | page=31 | archive-date=3 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192133/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1930-31.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> After teaching at Hopkins Grammar School from 1872 to 1873, he engaged in study and private teaching in Columbus, Ohio, 1873–74, then served as principal of Lancaster (Ohio) High School 1874-75. He studied theology in Columbus 1875-76 and graduated from [[Union Theological Seminary (New York)]] in 1877.<ref name="Harvard"/> He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry at Columbus February 8, 1878, and became pastor of Putnam Presbyterian Church in [[Zanesville, Ohio]], from 1878 to 1883. He Married Mary Soper, daughter of Albert Gallatin and Mary Ann (Chester) Hanford on April 25, 1878, in Chicago. They had two sons, William Eves, who died in infancy, and Albert Hanford.<ref name="obituary"/>

In 1883 he was appointed to the chair of Hebrew at [[Andover Newton Theological School|Andover Theological Seminary]] where he taught until 1902, serving as president of the seminary from 1899 to 1901 and  lectured on the history of religion from 1893 to 1901. During his service to Andover, he received the degree of [[Doctor of Divinity]] in 1885 from [[Marietta College]], Ohio, and 12 years later, from Yale University in 1897. In 1902, he became a professor at the [[Harvard Divinity School]], where he was appointed Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion in 1905, and Cabot Fellow for three years beginning in 1906. During his service at Harvard he obtained a degree of [[Legum Doctor]] in 1903 from [[Case Western Reserve University|Western Reserve University]]. He was a member of Harvard faculty from 1902 until retirement in 1928 and a preacher to the University from 1900 to 1903.<ref name="obituary"/>

Moore was a member of the [[Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft]], [[American Philological Association]], [[Archaeological Institute of America]], [[Society of Biblical Literature]], among others,<ref name="Harvard"/> In addition, he was a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-16 |title=George Foot Moore |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/george-foot-moore |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> serving as its president from 1921 to 1924, and was a member of both the [[American Oriental Society]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref name="divinity">{{cite book|chapter=George Foot Moore|chapter-url=http://library.hds.harvard.edu/exhibits/hds-20th-century/g-f-moore|title=Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the 20th Century|publisher=Harvard Divinity School Library|access-date=12 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=George+F.+Moore&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Besides contributing many articles on Biblical and Oriental subjects in learned journals, he wrote extensively for the "Encyclopaedia Biblica"<ref name="EncBib">''Encyclopaedia Biblica'' (1903), list of contributors</ref> and served as editor of the ''[[Harvard Theological Review]]''.<ref name="divinity"/> Among his books, ''History of Religions'' (1914, 1919) and ''Judaism'' (two volumes, 1927) stand out as especially praiseworthy.

Moore served as an interim pastor and preacher at [[Central Congregational Church (Providence, Rhode Island)|Central Congregational Church]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] from 1888-1889. He also preached  at the dedication of the new building in 1893, and at the 50th Anniversary of the congregation in 1902.<ref>{{cite book |title=Historical manual of the Central Congregational Church, Providence, R.I. 1852-1902 |date=1902 |publisher=E.L. Freeman & Sons |location=Providence |page=8 |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmanual00prov/page/16/mode/2up}}</ref>

Mrs. Mary Soper Moore died April 16, 1924. Moore died 7 years later due to general [[arteriosclerosis]] and chronic [[myocarditis]], in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts, May 16, 1931.<ref name="obituary"/>

==Works==
===Books===
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |title=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges |series=[[International Critical Commentary|International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments]] |volume=7 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1895 |isbn=978-0-567-05004-5 |oclc=860107 |url=https://archive.org/details/criticalexegetic00moor}}
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=The Book of Judges: A New English Translation Printed in Colors Exhibiting the Composite Structure of the Book |series=Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments, part 7.; Polychrome Bible |location=London; New York |publisher=J. Clark; Dodd, Mead, and Co. |date=1898 |oclc=3343798 |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofjudgesnewe00mooruoft}}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=George Foot |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Harper |editor2-first=Robert Francis |editor3-last=Brown |editor3-first=Francis |editor3-link=Francis Brown (theologian) |title=Old Testament and Semitic studies in Memory of William Rainey Harper|url=https://archive.org/details/oldtestamentand00moorgoog |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=1908 |oclc=3220423 }}
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=The Covenanters of Damascus: a Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |date=1911 |oclc=12094453|url=https://archive.org/details/covenantersofdam00moor }}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=George Foot |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Lyon |editor2-first=David Gordon |editor2-link=David Gordon Lyon |title=Studies in the History of Religions |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |date=1912 |oclc=2303663 |url=https://archive.org/details/studiesinhistory00lyon}}
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=The Literature of the Old Testament |series=Home University Library of Modern Knowledge |volume=65 |location=New York; London |publisher=H. Holt and Co.; Williams and Norgate |date=1913 |oclc=9430863 |url=https://archive.org/details/literatureoldtes00mooruoft }}<ref>{{cite web|title=The Literature of the Old Testament|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_E2AAAAMAAJ|access-date=May 12, 2016|last1 = Moore|first1 = George Foot|year = 1913}}</ref>
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=History of religions, Volume 1: China, Japan, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, Rome |series=The International Theological Library |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1913 |oclc=314138945 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofreligions01moor}}
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=Metempsychosis |series=Ingersoll Lecture, 1914 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1914 |oclc=2490057 |url=https://archive.org/details/metempsychosis00moor}}<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ingersoll Lecture, 1914, Metempsychosis|url=https://archive.org/details/metempsychosis00moorgoog|access-date=May 12, 2016}}</ref>
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=The Birth and Growth of Religion: Being the Morse Lectures of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/birthgrowthofrel00moor |series=Morse Lectures, 1922 |location=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |date=1923 |oclc=322865 }}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=George Foot |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Gray |editor2-first=Louis Herbert |editor2-link=Louis Herbert Gray |title=[[The Mythology of All Races]] |publisher=Marshall Jones Co. |date=1916 }} - a 13 volume series published between 1916 and 1923.
* ''History of Religions'' (Vol. I, 1913; Vol. II, 1919)
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=History of Religions, Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism |series=The International Theological Library |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1919 |oclc=174399216 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofreligions02moor}}<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Religions: China, Japan, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6waAAAAYAAJ|access-date=May 12, 2016|last1 = Moore|first1 = George Foot|year = 1922}}</ref>
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: the age of the tannaim |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1927 |isbn=9780674487505 |oclc=377315 }} - original published in 3 vols between 1927 and 1930
* Editor (unfinished work), [[Albert Pike]], ''Materials For The history of Freemasonry In France and Elsewhere on The Continent of Europe From 1718 To 1859'', circa 1905, detached from "The New Age" magazine.
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=Christian Writers on Judaism: nineteen centuries of apologetics and polemics |series=Analecta Gorgiana |volume=7 |location=Piscataway |publisher=Gorgias Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-1-593-33864-0 |oclc=171130703 }} - reprint of journal article

===Chapters===
*{{cite book |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |chapter=The Theological School at Nisibis |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=George Foot |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Lyon |editor2-first=David Gordon |editor2-link=David Gordon Lyon |title=Studies in the History of Religions |url=https://archive.org/details/studiesinhistory00lyon_0 |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |date=1912 |oclc=2303663 }}

===Articles===
*{{cite journal |author1-last=Moore |author1-first=George Foot |author1-mask=3 |title=Christian Writers on Judaism: nineteen centuries of apologetics and polemics |journal=[[Harvard Theological Review]] |volume=14 |issue=3 |date=1921 |pages=197–254 |doi=10.1017/S0017816000014474 |s2cid=163273892 }}
*{{cite journal |title=Zoroastrianism |journal=[[Harvard Theological Review]] |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=1912 |pages=180–226 |doi=10.1017/S0017816000013456 |last=Moore|first=George Foot|jstor=1507426 |s2cid=248817425 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1507426|url-access=subscription }}

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