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Samuel Rolles Driver (1835-1914) was a British scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew and Hebrew lexicography. He significantly contributed to the creation of the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, a highly influential resource for understanding Biblical Hebrew vocabulary. His expertise and meticulous work made the BDB lexicon invaluable for theologians, biblical scholars, and students studying the Old Testament.
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What does the Driver in Brown-Driver-Briggs refer to?
It refers to Samuel Rolles Driver, the Oxford Hebrew scholar who worked with Francis Brown and Charles A. Briggs on the lexicon. The resulting reference work is commonly abbreviated BDB.
Did Samuel Rolles Driver write the Hebrew lexicon from scratch?
BDB was based substantially on Wilhelm Gesenius's earlier Hebrew-German lexicon and its later revisions. Brown, Driver, and Briggs adapted and expanded that scholarship for English-speaking readers.
What was Driver's role at the University of Oxford?
Driver served as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1883 until his death in 1914. He succeeded the biblical scholar E. B. Pusey in that chair.
What other work by S. R. Driver is still cited in biblical studies?
His Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament became an influential English-language account of historical-critical scholarship. He also produced major commentaries on books including Deuteronomy and Samuel.
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