- Frederic G. Kenyon
Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA (
15 January 1863 –23 August 1952 ) was a British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar. He was the director of theBritish Museum . He was also the president of theBritish Academy from 1917 to 1921, and from 1918 to 1952 he wasGentleman Usher of the Purple Rod .Kenyon was born in London, the son of
John Robert Kenyon ,Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford. Educated atMagdalen College, Oxford , he joined theBritish Museum in 1889 and rose to be its Director and Head Librarian by 1909. He was knighted for his services in 1912.In 1891, Kenyon edited the
editio princeps of the AristotelianConstitution of Athens . In 1920, he was appointed president of theBritish School of Archaeology inJerusalem . He spent most of his retirement researching and publishing ancientpapyri . He died on23 August 1952 .Kenyon was a noted scholar of ancient languages, and made a life-long study of the
Bible , especially theNew Testament as an historical text. His book "Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts" (1895) showed how Egyptian papyri and other evidence fromarcheology can corroborate the narrative of historical events in the Gospel.Kenyon's eldest daughter was the British archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon.
Works
* "Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible" (
Schweich Lectures for 1932)References
* [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/k/Kenyon.shtml Biography of Frederic G. Kenyon] in German.
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* [http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj10d.pdf "The Master's Seminary Journal" 1:10 (Spring 1999), 42]
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