John Spencer | |
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| Born | 1630  |
| Died | 27 May 1693 (aged 62–63) |
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John Spencer (1630–1693) was an English clergyman and scholar, and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. An erudite theologian and Hebraist, he is best remembered as the author of De Legibus Hebraeorum, a pioneer work of comparative religion, in which he advanced the thesis that Judaism was not the earliest of mankind's religions.[1]
- ^ Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1971), p. 330.