The Faculty of Theology immediately appointed him as an examiner, and he became a Reader in Biblical Criticism in 1934 and the Old Testament tutor for Mansfield College.
Wheeler Robinson had found that this concept in fact originated in animism, though it was subsequently developed to much greater religious depth in Hebrew thought.
[4] Wheeler Robinson left an enduring legacy and is still considered a major scholar whose influence on Old Testament studies is felt long after his own time.
His son Bernard Robinson (6 June 1904 - 7 July 1997) was a physicist on Ernest Rutherford's team at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and an influential amateur musician.
Robinson founded the annual Bothampstead Music Camp in 1935, which continued at the farmland site in Berkshire most years until 1966, when it moved to Speen in Buckinghamshire.