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DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRIVER, See also:SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– ) , See also:English divine and See also:Hebrew See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Southampton on the 2nd of See also:October 1846. He was educated at See also:Winchester and New See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869. He was awarded the See also:Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the See also:Kennicott scholarship in 187o (both Hebrew), and the See also:Houghton See also:Syriac See also:prize in 1872. From 187o he was a See also:fellow, and from 1875 also a See also:tutor, of New College, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as regius See also:professor of Hebrew and See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision See also:Committee (1876–1884) and examining See also:chaplain to the See also:bishop of See also:Southwell (1884–19o4); received the honorary degrees of See also:doctor of literature of See also:Dublin (1892), doctor of divinity of See also:Glasgow (1901), doctor of literature of See also:Cambridge (1905); and was elected a fellow of the See also:British See also:Academy in 1902. Dr Driver devoted his See also:life to the study, both textual and See also:critical, of the Old Testament. Among his numerous See also:works are commentaries on See also:Joel and See also:Amos (1897); See also:Deuteronomy (1902); See also:Daniel (See also:root); See also:Genesis (1909); the See also:Minor Prophets, See also:Nahum to See also:Malachi (1905) ; See also:Job (1905); See also:Jeremiah (1906); See also:Leviticus (1894 Hebrew See also:text, 1898 trans. and notes); Samuel (Hebrew text, 1890). Among his more See also:general works are: See also:Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew (1892); See also: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. See also:Lexicon of the O.T. (in collaboration, 1906); See also:Modern See also:Research as illustrating the See also:Bible (1909) ; articles in the Ency.

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Hastings' Dict. of the Bible.

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