Ronald Kenneth Harrison was an Old Testament scholar.

Harrison studied at the University of London

University of London

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 (B.D.

Bachelor of Divinity

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, 1943; M.Th.

Master of Theology

A Master of Theology is an advanced theological research degree offered by universities, divinity schools, and seminaries.-North America:In North America, the Master of Theology is considered by the Association of Theological Schools to be the minimum educational credential for teaching...

, 1947, Ph.D.

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, 1952) and taught at Clifton College

Trinity College, Bristol

Trinity College Bristol is a Christian college affiliated to the Church of England, though students come from different denominations. It is located in Stoke Bishop in Bristol, England, next to the University of Bristol's residential halls...

, Bristol

Bristol

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 from 1947 to 1949, before his appointment as Hellmuth Professor of Old Testament Studies at Huron College

Huron University College

Huron University College, referred to locally as Huron College is one of the affiliated colleges of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario....

, University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

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. In 1960 he became Professor of Old Testament Studies at Wycliffe College

Wycliffe College

Wycliffe College is an Anglican Church of Canada seminary federated with the University of Toronto. It is evangelical and Low church in orientation. On the other hand, the University of Toronto's other Anglican college, the University of Trinity College is Anglo-Catholic in outlook. While being an...

, University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, where he stayed until his retirement in 1986.

Harrison is best known for his Introduction to the Old Testament (1969) but wrote many other books, including commentaries on Leviticus

Leviticus

The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah ....

 (ISBN 184474258X) and Jeremiah

Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve....

 and Lamentations

Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations ) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th Century BCE....

 (ISBN 0830842217). He was on the Executive Review Committee of the New King James Version

New King James Version

The New King James Version is a modern translation of the Bible published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. The New Testament was published in 1979. The Psalms in 1980. The full Bible was published in 1982. It took a total of 7 years to complete...

. and translated several of the Minor Prophets in the New International Version

New International Version

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. Together with Merrill Unger

Merrill Unger

Merrill Frederick Unger was a Bible commentator, scholar, and theologian. He earned his A.B. and Ph.D degrees at Johns Hopkins University, and his Th.M and Th.D degrees at Dallas Theological Seminary. After serving as a pastor at several churches, Unger taught for a year at Gordon College...

, he edited The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary.

In 1988, a Festschrift

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was published in his honour, Israel's apostasy and restoration: essays in honor of Roland K Harrison (ISBN 0801038308). Edited by Avraham Gileadi

Avraham Gileadi

Avraham Gileadi is a religious historian and former university professor. A Latter-day Saint Hebrew scholar and literary analyst, Gileadi specializes in the Book of Isaiah. He is also one of the September Six, who were excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1993...

, it included contributions by Clarence Hassell Bullock, Eugene Merrill

Eugene H. Merrill (academic)

Eugene Haines Merrill is an Old Testament scholar who has served as a distinguished professor of Old Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and 2010 president of the Evangelical Theological Society....

 and Bruce Waltke

Bruce Waltke

Bruce K. Waltke is a Reformed evangelical professor of Old Testament and Hebrew. He has held professorships in the Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reformed Theological...

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Harrison married Kathleen Beattie in 1945, and they had three children.