Samuel Rolles DriverFBA (2 October 1846 – 26 February 1914) was anEnglishdivine andHebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual andcritical, of theOld Testament. He was the father ofSir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished biblical scholar.
Samuel Rolles Driver was born inSouthampton. He was educated atWinchester andNew College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, receiving a first-class degree inLiterae Humaniores in 1869. He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, theKennicott Scholarship in 1870 (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872. From 1870 he was a fellow, and from 1875 also a tutor, ofNew College, and in 1883 succeededPusey asRegius Professor of Hebrew and canon ofChrist Church, Oxford until his death in 1914.[1]
He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee of theRevised Version (1876–1884) and examining chaplain to theBishop of Southwell (1884–1904). He received the honorary degrees ofdoctor of literature of theUniversity of Dublin (1892),doctor of divinity of theUniversity of Glasgow (1901),[2] and doctor of literature of theUniversity of Cambridge (1905), and was elected afellow of the British Academy in 1902.[1]
Driver married Mabel, daughter of Edmund Barr, of Burgh, near Aylsham, Norfolk, in 1891; they had two sons and two daughters.[1] He died at Oxford in 1914.[3]
Among Driver's numerous works are commentaries on:[1]
Among his more general works are:[1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Driver, Samuel Rolles".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 585.
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