Biography

Charles Cutler Torrey (20 December 1863 – 12 November 1956) was an American historian, archeologist and scholar who presented manuscripturial evidence to support alternate views on Christian and Islamic religious sources and origins. He founded the American School of Archaeology at Jerusalem in 1901. Torrey taught Semitic languages at the Andover Theological Seminary (1892–1900) and Yale University (1900–32).