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DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846 )

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 585 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846 ) , English divine and Hebrew scholar, was born at Southampton on the 2nd of October 1846. 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 187o (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872. From 187o 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 (18761884) and examining chaplain to the
bishop
  of Southwell (188419o4); 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. Dr Driver devoted his life to the study, both textual and
critical
 , of the Old Testament. Among his numerous works are commentaries on Joel and Amos (1897); Deuteronomy (1902); Daniel (root);
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 (1909) ; articles in the Ency. Brit., Ency. Bibl. and Hastings' Dict. of the Bible.


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