Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver (October 2, 1846 - February 26, 1914) was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished Bible scholar.

He was born at Southampton. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869. He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the Kennicott scholarship in 1870 (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872. From 1870 he was a fellow, and from 1875 also a tutor, of New College, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church.

He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee of the Revised Version (1876-1884) and examining chaplain to the bishop of Southwell (1884-1904); received the honorary degrees of doctor of literature of Dublin (1892), doctor of divinity of Glasgow (1901), doctor of literature of Cambridge (1905); and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1902.

Driver married in 1891, Mabel, daughter of Edmund Barr, of Burgh, near Aylsham, Norfolk, and leaves two sons and two daughters. He died at Oxford in 1914. [Death Of Canon S. R. Driver. A Great Biblical Scholar. "The Times", Friday, Feb 27, 1914; pg. 11; Issue 40458; col F]

Among Driver's numerous works are commentaries on:
*Joel and Amos (1897)
*Deuteronomy (1902)
*Daniel (1901)
*Genesis (1909)
*the Minor Prophets, Nahum to Malachi (1905)
*Job (1905)
*Jeremiah (1906)
*Leviticus (1894 Hebrew text, 1898 trans. and notes)
*Samuel (Hebrew text, 1890).

Among his more general works are:
*"Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew" (1892)
*"Isaiah, his Life and Times" (1893)
*"Introd. to the Literature of the Old Test." (1897, ed. 1909)
*"Sermons on Subjects connected with the Old Testament" (1892)
*"The Parallel Psalter" (1904)
*"Heb. and Eng. Lexicon of the O. T." (in collaboration, 1906)
*"Modern Research as illustrating the Bible" (inaugural Schweich Lecture, 1908)
*articles in the "Ency. Brit.", "Encyclopaedia Biblica", "Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible" and "Dictionary of National Biography"

References

ee also

*Brown Driver Briggs


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