William Andrew Irwin (6 December 1884, in Ontario, Canada – April 1967, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA), was a Canadian educator.

He was Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago and the Southern Methodist University, Wheaton, Maryland, where his papers can be found today.^[1] He earned a B.A., M.A., and B.D. from Victoria University, Toronto.

Selected books

• The Old Testament, Keystone of Human Culture (New York: Henry Schuman, 1952).
• The Problem of Ezekiel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943).
• (With I. M. Price et al.) The Ancestry of our English Bible (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949).
• (With H. Frankfort et al.) The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946).
• (With J.M.P. Smith) The Prophets and their Times (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941).
• (Festschrift) Edward C. Hobbs, ed. A Stubborn Faith: Papers on Old Testament and Related Subjects Presented to Honor William A. Irwin (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1956).

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