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William Sanday (born Aug. 1, 1843, Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died Sept. 16, 1920, Oxford) was a New Testament scholar, one of the pioneers in introducing to English students and the Anglican world the mass of work done by continental scholars in biblical criticism, particularly through his principal writings, Commentary on Romans (1895, with Arthur C. Headlam), and Outlines of the Life of Christ (1905). Educated at Repton and Balliol College, Oxford, Sanday became a scholar...