Norman Snaith

Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister.

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College.

Snaith became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor of Old Testament at Wesley College in 1936.

[1] In 1957, Snaith was president of the Society for Old Testament Study.