Charles Cutler Torrey

Historian, Author

1863 – 1956

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Who was Charles Cutler Torrey?

Charles Cutler Torrey was an American historian, archeologist and scholar who presented manuscripturial evidence to support alternate views on Christian and Islamic religious sources and origins. He founded the American School of Archaeology at Jerusalem in 1901.

Torrey taught Semitic languages at the Andover Theological Seminary and Yale University.

Some of Charles Cutler Torrey's studies are included in The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book edited by Ibn Warraq.

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Born
Dec 20, 1863
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Nov 12, 1956

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on July 23, 2013

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