HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL ), English scholar, born at Plymouth, studied at Close college, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow. He held professorships at Johns Hopkins university and at Haverford college, U.S.A., from 1882 to 1892, was then professor of palaeography (1893-1903) at Cambridge, spent a year at Leyden as professor of theology, and was director of studies at the Friends' Settlement at Woodbrooke, near Bir mingham, from 1903 to 1918. In 1918 he became curator of mss. at the Ryland library, Manchester. Rendel Harris travelled ex tensively in the Near East in search of mss. He is the author of a long series of works dealing with textual criticism of the biblical books, and of sacred books outside the canon of scripture, and of works on various Mediterranean cults. His works include: Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai (1890) ; The Diatessaron (1890) ; Lectures on the Western Text of the New Testament (1894) ; Origin of the Cult of Dionysus (1915) ; Further Traces of Hittite Migration (1927).