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Donald Foster Hudson

Donald Foster Hudson

British missionary to India (1916 - 2003)

Donald Foster Hudson (1916–2003) was a British missionary in India and the author of Teach Yourself New Testament Greek.

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History

Hudson was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 29 April 1916[1] to John and Kate. He was enlisted for overseas missionary work with the BMS World Mission and was sent for theological studies to the Regent's Park College, Oxford.[1] He became ordained as a Baptist minister on 6 July 1940[1] and sailed for India the same year.

Hudson first served as a Missionary in Burma and later became Lecturer in New Testament at Serampore College (the only constituent College of the Senate of Serampore College}) from 1941 to 1964[3] along with M. P. John, his colleague who joined the college in 1947. Hudson and John tutored K. David, then pursuing postgraduate studies in Serampore College.[4]

In 1964 Hudson left India and was involved in pastoral roles in England among the Baptist fraternity.[1] In 1997 he received Maundy money from Queen Elizabeth II in Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire, England.[1] He was a member[5] of the Society for Biblical Studies in India.

Writings

Books

  • Teach Yourself New Testament Greek[2]
  • Teach Yourself Bengali[6]
  • The Life and Letters of Saint Paul[7]

Articles

  • Diakonia and its Cognates in the New Testament[8]
  • A Further Note on Philippians 2:6-11[9]
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References

Notes
  1. [1]
    John Hudson, Donald Foster HUDSON 1916-2003 [Heath 1927-1935]. "Heath Old Boys Association Official Web Site". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
  2. [2]
    D. F. Hudson, Teach Yourself New Testament Greek English Universities Press, New York City, 1960.
  3. [3]
    The Council of Serampore College, The Story of Serampore and its College, Fourth Edition 2005, Serampore.
  4. [4]
    Cf. Wikipedia Article on M. P. John
  5. [5]
    Fr. Max Gonsalves (Ed.), Society for Biblical Studies in India Directory 1998.
  6. [6]
    D. F. Hudson, Teach Yourself Bengali, English Universities Press, New York, 1965.
  7. [7]
    D. F. Hudson, The Life and Letters of Saint Paul, Hodder & Stoughton, England, 1966.
  8. [8]
    D. F. Hudson, Diakonia and its Cognates in the New Testament in Indian Journal of Theology, April–June 1965, Volume 14, Number 2, pp.138-147. Cited by Dhirendra Kumar Sahu in The Church of North India: a Historical and Systematic Theological Inquiry into an Ecumenical Ecclesiology, Volume 88 of Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums (Volume 88 of Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity), Approximation & Optimization, Peter Lang, Germany, 1994. p.278.
  9. [9]
    D. F. Hudson, A Further Note on Philippians 2:6-11 in Expository Times LXXVII, 1965-66, p.29. Cited in Revue biblique, Volume 83, Ecole pratique d'études bibliques (Jerusalem), Ecole biblique et archéologique française, France, 1976. p.25.
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