Encyclopedia Biblica Vols 1-4 1899-1903

The Encyclopedia Biblica is profiled by Wikipedia at this url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_Biblica

Wikipedia lists the heavy weights of its era who wrote or contributed to articles including Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, Professor of New Testament Exegesis a University of Zurich who wrote the article on the Gospels. Wikipedia list their names:

Authors and contributors

The authors of the articles include many of the most respected biblical scholars at the time it was written. Several held senior professorships at important universities and many held the highest academic qualification – the Doctor of Divinity. The contributors were:

• Anthony Ashley Bevan, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, Cambridge.
• A. E. Shipley, MA, FZS, Fellow, Tutor, and Lecturer at Christ's College, Cambridge.
• Adolf Jülicher, Professor of Church History and New Testament Exegesis, University of Marburg.
• Adolf Kamphausen, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Bonn.
• Archibald Kennedy, R. S., MA, DD, Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, the University of Edinburgh.
• C. Creighton, MD, Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Charles Fox Burney, Lecturer in Hebrew, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
• C. H. W. Johns, MA, Queens' College, Cambridge.
• C. J. Ball, MA, Chaplain to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London.
• Cornelis Petrus Tiele, Professor of Comparative History and Philosophy of Religion (which was specially created for him), Leiden University.
• Eduard Meyer, Professor of Ancient History, University of Halle.
• Francis Brown, DD, Davenport Professor of Hebrew and the cognate Languages in the Union Theological Seminary, New York.
• George Adam Smith, DD LLD, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, Free Church College, Glasgow (later made principal of the University of Aberdeen).
• George Augustus Simcox, MA, Queen's College, Oxford.
• Buchanan Gray, MA, Lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament Theology, Mansfield College, Oxford.
• George Foot Moore, DD, Professor of Hebrew in Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.
• Hermann Guthe, a.o. Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, Leipzig University.
• Baron Hermann von Soden, Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Berlin.
• Hope W. Hogg, MA
• Heinrich Zimmern, a.o. Professor of Assyriology, Leipzig.
• Israel Abrahams, London, Editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review (and highly respected scholar of Judaism).
• Immanuel Benzinger, University of Berlin.
• J. Armitage Robinson, DD, Canon of Westminster Cathedral.
• John Massie, Yates Professor of New Testament Exegesis in Mansfield College, Oxford; formerly scholar of St John's College, Cambridge.
• Karl Budde, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Strasbourg.
• Karl Marti, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and the Hebrew Language, University of Berne.
• Lucien Gautier, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and History, University of Lausanne.
• Leonard William King, MA, FSA, Assistant to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum (and former lecturer in Babylo-Assyriological Archaeology at King's College, Cambridge)
• Maurice A. Canney, MA (Oxon.)
• Morris Jastrow Jr., PhD, Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Pennsylvania.
• M. R. James, LittD, Fellow and Dean of King's College, Cambridge.
• Norman McLean, MA, Lecturer in Hebrew, and Fellow of Christ's College, Lecturer in Semitic Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
• Nathaniel Schmidt, Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
• Owen C. Whitehouse MA, Principal and Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology in the Countess of Huntingdon's College, Cheshunt, Herts.
• Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Zurich.
• Robert Henry Charles, MA, DD, Professor of Biblical Greek in Trinity College, Dublin.
• Robert W. Rogers, PhD, DD, Professor of Hebrew, Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey.
• Stanley A. Cook, MA (Cantab.)
• Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
• Theophilus G. Pinches, MRAS, Egyptian and Assyrian Department, British Museum.
• T. K. Cheyne, MA, DD, Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford, Canon of Rochester Cathedral.
• Theodor Nöldeke, Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Strasbourg.
• T. W. Davies, PhD, Professor of Old Testament Literature, North Wales Baptist College, Bangor; Lecturer in Semitic Languages, University College, Bangor.
• Wilhelm Bousset, a.o., Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Göttingen.
• W. E. Addis, MA, Lecturer in Old Testament Criticism, Manchester College, Oxford.
• W. H. Bennett, Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature, Hackney Theological Seminary, and Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, New College, London.
• W. H. Kosters, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, Leiden University.
• William John Woodhouse, MA, Lecturer in Classical Philology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and later in Ancient History at St Andrews University.
• W. Max Müller, Professor of Old Testament Literature, Reformed Episcopal Seminary, West Philadelphia.
• William Ridgeway, Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge.
• William Robertson Smith, Professor of Arabic, Cambridge.
• William Sanday, DD, LLD, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, CMG, LLD, FRS., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Willem Christiaan van Manen, Professor of Old Christian Literature and New Testament exegesis, University of Leiden.