Benjamin Blayney

Benjamin Blayney

Benjamin Blayney (born 1728; died Sept. 20, 1801) was an English divine and Hebraist.

He was educated at Oxford, took a master's degree in 1735, and became fellow and vice-principal of Hertford College in 1768. He was employed by the Clarendon Press to prepare a corrected edition of the Authorized Version of the Bible. This appeared in 1769, but most of it was destroyed by fire in the Bible warehouse, Paternoster Row, London. Blayney then studied Hebrew, and in 1787 took his degree as doctor of divinity.

Principal works

*"A Dissertation by Way of Inquiry into the True Import . . . of Daniel ix. 24 to the End"," etc., 1775-97, which was translated into German by J. D. Michaelis;
*a new translation of Jeremiah and Lamentations, 1784;
*an edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch in Hebrew characters, 1790;
*a new translation of Zechariah, 1797.

External links

*Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Benjamin Blayney|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=B&artid=1125
* [http://keithblayney.com/Blayney/Blayney.html Blayney family webpage]


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