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See also:POCOCKE, See also:EDWARD (1604-1691) , See also:English Orientalist and biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born in 1604, the son of a See also:Berkshire See also:clergy-See also:man, and received his See also:education at the See also:free school of Thame in See also:Oxfordshire and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (scholar in 162o, See also:fellow in 1628). The first-See also:fruit of his studies was an edition from a Bodleian MS. of the four New Testament epistles (2 See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter, 2 and 3 See also:John, See also:Jude) which were not in the old See also:Syriac See also:canon, and were not contained in See also:European See also:editions of the Peshito. This was published at See also:Leiden at the instigation of G. See also:Vossius in 163o, and in the same See also:year Pococke sailed for See also:Aleppo as See also:chaplain to the English factory. At Aleppo he made himself a profound Arabicscholar, and collected many valuable See also:MSS. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Wm. See also:Laud was See also:bishop of See also:London and See also:chancellor of the university of Oxford, and Pococke became known to him as one who could help his schemes for enriching the university. Laud founded an Arabic See also:chair at Oxford, and invited Pococke See also:home to fill it, and he entered on his duties on the loth of See also:August 1636; but next summer he sailed again for See also:Constantinople to prosecute further studies and collect more books, and remained there for about three years. When he returned to See also:England Laud was in the See also:Tower, but had taken the precaution to See also:place the Arabic chair on a permanent footing. Pococke does not seem to have been an extreme churchman or to have meddled actively in politics. His rare scholarship and See also:personal qualities raised him up influential See also:friends among the opposite party, foremost among these being John See also:Selden and John See also:Owen. Through their offices he was even advanced in 1648 to the chair of See also:Hebrew, though as he could not take the engagement of 1649 he lost the emoluments of the See also:post soon after, and did not recover them till the Restoration. These cares seriously hampered Pococke in his studies, as he complains in the See also:preface to his Eutychius; he seems to have See also:felt most deeply the attempts to remove him from his See also:parish of Childrey, a college living which he had accepted in 1643. In 1649 he published the Specimen historiae arabum, a See also:short See also:account of the origin and See also:manners of the See also:Arabs, taken from Barhebraeus (Abulfaragius), with notes from a vast number of MS. See also:sources which are still valuable. This was followed in 1655 by the Porta Mosis, extracts from the Arabic commentary of See also:Maimonides on the Mishna, with See also:translation and very learned notes; and in 1656 by the See also:annals of Eutychius in Arabic and Latin. He also gave active assistance to See also:Brian See also:Walton's polyglot See also:bible, and the preface to the various readings of the Arabic See also:Pentateuch is from his See also:hand. After the Restoration Pococke's See also:political and pecuniary troubles were removed, but the reception of his Magnum See also:opus— a See also:complete edition of the Arabic See also:history of Barhebraeus (See also:Greg. Abulfaragii historic See also:corn pendiosa dynastiarum), which he dedicated to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in 1663, showed that the new See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of things was not very favourable to profound scholarship. After this his most important See also:works were a See also:Lexicon heptaglotton (1669) and English commentaries on See also:Micah (1677), See also:Malachi (1677), See also:Hosea (1685) and See also:Joel (1691), which are still See also:worth See also:reading. An Arabic translation of See also:Grotius's De verit See also:ate, which appeared in 166o, may also be mentioned as a See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of Pococke's See also:interest in the See also:propagation of See also:Christianity in the See also:East. This was an old See also:plan, which he had talked over with Grotius at See also:Paris on his way back from Constantinople. Pococke married in 1646, and died in 1691. One of his sons, Edward (1648-1727), published several contributions to Arabic literature—a fragment of See also:Abdallatif's description of See also:Egypt and the Philosophus autodidactus of See also:Ibn Tufail.
The theological works of Pococke were collected, in two volumes, in 174o, with a curious account of his See also:life and writings by L. Twells.
End of Article: POCOCKE, EDWARD (1604-1691)
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