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Key People

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Burnett Hillman Streeter

British theologian

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George Foot Moore

American scholar and theologian

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Papias

early Christian writer and bishop

Eichhorn, engraving by Christian Gottlieb Geyser after a painting by Ernst Gottlob

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

German biblical scholar