Allan MacRae

Allan Alexander MacRae (February 11, 1902, Calumet, Michigan – September 27, 1997, Quarryville, Pennsylvania) was a Christian scholar, educator, minister, and with Jack Murray, a co-founder of Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

He graduated from Occidental College in 1922 and earned a Master of Arts at the same school the following year. He studied under R. A. Torrey at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles then obtained a Th.B. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1927. He earned an A.M. from Princeton University the same year, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936.

MacRae was a scholar of Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Arabic, Syriac and other Semitic languages. He studied at the University of Berlin and spent four months with William F. Albright in archaeological exploration of the Biblical city Ham, mentioned in Genesis 14. He collaborated with Princeton theologian Robert Dick Wilson to produce a scholarly refutation of the JEDP theory of higher criticism, a key issue supporting the conservative position in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy.