Arthur Peake

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Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St. John's College, Oxford. In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College (Congregational), Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 was fellow at Merton College. In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1892 he had become tutor in the Manchester Primitive Methodist College and in 1904 Rylands professor of biblical exegesis in Victoria University. The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. Among Dr. Peake's publications are:

A Guide to Biblical Study (1907)
The problem of Suffering in the Old Testament (1904)
The Religion of Israel (1908)
Critical Introduction to the New Testament (1909)
Heroes and Martyrs of Faith (1910)
The Bible: Its origin, Significance, and Abiding Worth (1913)
A Commentary on the Bible (with the assistance of A. J. Grieve for the New Testament) (1919)

Dr. Peake also wrote separate commentaries on Hebrews (1902; Century Bible), Colossians (1903; Expositor's Greek Testament), Job (1905; Century Bible), Jeremiah (1910-12; Century Bible), and Isaiah xl-lxvi (1912).