Herbert Danby was an Anglican priest and Oxford professor credited with changing Christian attitudes toward Judaism. Through 2005 the opening said, "His contributions to the decline of anti-semitism in intellectual circles in the twentieth century was very significant." Today the opening credits him only with playing a role "in the change of attitudes toward Judaism"; the word survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns he changed attitudes toward Judaism, and not that his specific contribution was fighting antisemitism.
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Herbert Danby ( 20 January , 1889 - 29 March , 1953 ) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism at the start of the twentieth century . He was the regus professor of Hebrew and Canon at Christ Church, Oxford , and also the Residentiary Canon of St. He translated the Mishna into English. He assisted in the Yale Translation of the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides . He also translated a remarkable work by Joseph Klausner entitled Jesus of Nazareth . His contributions to the decline of anti-semitism in intellectual circles in the twentieth century was very significant. He was at work revising his translation of Maimonides' Book of Cleanness when he finally succumbed to his fatal illness. Among his close friends were Professor G.R.1
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Herbert Danby (20 January, 1889 - 29 March, 1953) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Herbert Danby (20 January 1889 – 29 March 1953) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Herbert Danby (20 January 1889 – 29 March 1953) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Anglican priest and Oxford University professor Herbert Danby (20 January 1889 – 29 March 1953) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
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anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward judaism at the start of
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anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward judaism in the first hal
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