John Merlin Powis Smith (December 28, 1866, London – November 1932) who published as J.M.P. Smith was an American Biblical scholar who worked on a translation of the Bible with Edgar J. Goodspeed

Edgar J. Goodspeed

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed was an American liberal theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches...

(published 1939).

He was born December 28, 1866, in London, son of William Martin and Anne Powis Smith. Enrolled as a graduate student of University of Chicago, 1894.

Works

• 1911 A critical and exegetical commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah and Joel
• 1923 The moral life of the Hebrews
• 1931 The origin and history of Hebrew law
• 1925 The prophets and their times
• 1914 The Prophet And His Problems
• 1922 The religion of the Psalms
• 1901 The day of Yahweh The day of Yahweh 2 editions - first published in 1901 Read
• 1908 Books for Old Testament study.
• 1908 The universal element in the Psalter.
• 1917 The problem of suffering in the Old Testament.

• 1939 (posthumous) The American Bible