Abbot, EZRA (1819-1884), an American biblical scholar. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, graduated at Bowdoin in 1840, and in 1856 became assistant librarian at Harvard. From 1872 until his death he was professor of New Testament interpretation in the Cambridge Divinity School. Perhaps his most important work was in connection with the American Revision of the Bible, the scholarly accuracy of which he did much to secure. He left his main library of five thousand volumes to Harvard, the remainder to the Cambridge Divinity School. His chief book is The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel.