- Allan MacRae
Allan Alexander MacRae (1902-1997) was with Dr. Jack Murray a co-founder of
Biblical Theological Seminary , Hatfield, Pennsylvania.He was born
February 11 ,1902 , in Calumet, Michigan. He graduated fromOccidental College in 1922 and earned a Master of Arts at the same school the following year. He studied under Reuben Archer Torrey at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles then obtained a Th.B. fromPrinceton Theological Seminary in 1927. He earned an A.M. fromPrinceton University the same year, and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1936.He was a scholar of Babylonian Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Arabic, Syriac, and other semitic languages. He studied at the University of Berlin and spent four months with
William Foxwell Albright in archaeological exploration of the Biblical city Ham, mentioned in Genesis 14.He helped organize the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936. Along with Rev.
Carl McIntire the following year he helped organize Faith Theological Seminary. He separated from McIntire in 1971 to formBiblical Theological Seminary .He died
September 27 ,1997 at the Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Home,Quarryville ,Pennsylvania .Works
* The Gospel of Isaiah
* The Prophecies of Daniel
* Biblical Christianity (a compendium of correspondence)External links
* [http://www.bsmi.org/macrae.htm| Biography of Dr. Allan MacRae]
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