CHEYNE, THOMAS KELLY. - Protestant exegete, b. in London on 18 Sept. 1841, d. there on 16 Nov. 1915. Professor at Oxford from 1886 to 1908 and member of the British Academy. An indefatigable worker, he amassed immense documentation, to be used, however, with the utmost caution because of the radical tendencies characteristic of C.
Attributing a very great influence to northern Arabia upon the history and doctrine of the Jews, he distorted the sacred text in order to find in it proof of his fantastic imaginings, claiming to see Ieramod and his descendants cited at every turn. He was co-editor of the Encyclopaedia biblica (London 1899-1903), which bears his name. His principal works concern Isaiah, the Psalms, criticism, and Hebrew history: The Prophecy of Isaia, A new translation and commentary (2 vols., 4th ed., there 1886); The origin and religious contents of the Psalter (there 1891); Founders of Old Testament criticism (there 1894); The Book of Psalms translated from a revised text (2 vols., there 1904); Critica biblica (4 parts, there 1906 ff.); The veil of Hebrew history (there 1913).