Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Samuel Rolles Driver

PROF. MARC ZVI BRETTLER: S. R. Driver “Taught the Faithful Criticism, and the Critics Faith.” A reflection on the 106th yahrzeit of Samuel Rolles Driver (TheTorah.com).
Driver was the greatest British biblical scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—one of the few scholars of that era whose work has endured. He is the “D” of the famed BDB Lexicon—the Brown, Driver, Briggs A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament—which is still widely-used more than a century after it was published, largely because of Driver’s role in the project. His 1892 book on the Hebrew tenses remains a classic.[6] But he was much more than a lexicographer and a grammarian.

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