Samuel Ifor Enoch

The Rev. Professor Samuel Ifor Enoch MA (December 26, 1914 – June 10, 2001), was Professor of New Testament Studies and Principal of the Presbyterian United Theological College Aberystwyth in Wales.

Samuel Ifor Enoch was born at Ciliau Aeron, Cardiganshire, one of three sons of Jennie Enoch and the Rev J. Aeronydd Enoch. As a school boy in Ferryside in south Carmarthenshire Enoch grew up with serious breathing problems and he lost much of his grammar-school years due to recurring pneumonia. Enoch had pneumonia four times, once even surviving double pneumonia. Despite all this ill-health he continued to read and study and gained access to the University of Wales at Swansea where he studied Greek and, having won a Lewis and Gibson Scholarship, later read Theology at Westminster College, part of Cambridge University.

In 1933 Enoch contributed one shilling (5p) towards the public fund-raising campaign which bought the Codex Sinaiticus from the Russian government for £100,000. It is now in the British Library in London.

Enoch joined Columbia University, in New York City, where he researched for an MPhil degree. Here he came under the influence of the brilliant scholars at Union Theological Seminary, especially the Professor of Applied Christianity, Reinhold Niebuhr and F. C. Grant.

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