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<p> an Egyptologist and [[Hebrew]] scholar, was born in [[England]] in 1799. After starting in life as a banker, he soon retired from business, and devoted himself to the studies of [[Egyptology]] and Hebrew. The numerous volumes which came from his pen during his long and busy life he died in August 1881 were all concerned either with the monuments of ancient Egypt, or with Biblical researches. "A Unitarian and liberal," says the Academy, "he occupied himself in popularizing a mode of interpreting the [[Scriptures]] which, though it would now be considered at once conservative and narrow, seemed half a century ago starting, if not profane." His chief Egyptological works were the following: [[Early]] History of [[Egypt]] from the Old Testament, Herodotus, Manetho, and the Hieroglyphic [[Inscriptions]] (1836): — [[Egyptian]] inscriptions from the British [[Museum]] and other Sources (first series, 1837; second series, 1855): — The [[Rudiments]] of a Vocabulary of the Egyptian [[Hieroglyphics]] (1837): — The History of Egypt under the Ptolemies (1838): — History of Egypt under the Romans (1842): — The History of Egypt from the Earliest Times till the Conquest of the Arabs, A.D. 640 (1846; 5th ed. 1870): — The [[Chronology]] and [[Geography]] of [[Ancient]] Egypt (1849): — Historical Sketch of the Egyptian Buildings and [[Sculpture]] (1854): — [[Alexandrian]] Chronology (1857): — Egyptian Hieroglyphics (1861): — Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum (1862): — The [[Decree]] of [[Canopus]] (1870): — The [[Rosetta]] [[Stone]] (1871). His most important publication on Biblical matters were, Historic Notes on the Books of the Old and New Testaments (1854; 3d ed. 1858): — Critical Notes on the Authorized English Version of the Old [[Testament]] (1856; 2d ed. 1867): — The Chronology of the [[Bible]] (1868): — Texts from the Holy Bible Explained by the Help of the Ancient Monuments (eod.): — History of the Hebrew Nation and Literature (1869; 2d ed. 1872): — On the Journeys and [[Epistles]] of the [[Apostle]] Paul (1876): — A Short Hebrew Grammar without [[Points]] (1877): — The Book of Isaiah arranged Chronologically in a Revised Translation, and Accompanied with Historical Notes (eod.). Mr. Sharpe's two lines of study met in his work on Egyptian [[Mythology]] and Egyptiln Christianity, with their Influence on the Opinions of Modern [[Christendom]] (1863). In 1875 he brought out a volume on Hebrew Inscriptions from the Valleys between Eqypt and Mount Sinai, and shortly after his death was published his Βαρναβᾶ Επιστολή, The [[Epistle]] of [[Barnabas]] from the Sinaitic Manuscript of the Bible, with an English translation (1881), in which he seeks to fix its date to the year of the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] by Titus. (B.P.) </p>

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