Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick (1856 1914) published this translation of the Book of Wisdom in 1913. Educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Gottingen, a Fellow and librarian of St John's, Oxford, and then rector at Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, Goodrick was a scholar of some note and varied interests, translating Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus and editing the memoir of the Civil War soldier Sydnam Poyntz. Traditionally thought to be written by King Solomon, and containing prophecies and moral instruction, the Book of Widsom is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible, its canonicity being...
Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick (1856 1914) published this translation of the Book of Wisdom in 1913. Educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Gottingen, a Fel...