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Bibliographic information
| Title | Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica, in 5 volumes |
| Author | S. R. Driver | | Publisher | Varda Books |
| Publication Date | 2009 |
| Pages | 1654 |
Edited by S.R. Driver, T.K. Cheyne and William Sanday, this collection of essays in Bible, Biblical Archaeology and Patristic Criticism represents the finest in late nineteenth century scholarship.
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DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES: English Christian Hebraist born at Southampton Oct. 2,
1846, Driver can truly be called in the words of one of the observers "the
greatest Bible scholar of his generation."
One of the foremost champions of Biblical
criticism, Driver has always taken a conservative view, showing much moderation
and sympathy with the orthodox position. As such he was often attacked both from
the Left and the Right of the field. His “A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in
Hebrew” (Oxford, 1874; 3d ed., 1892), has remained one of the most complete
presentation of the subject.
For Driver “the Old Testament is not a systematic
treatise on theology, but the record of a historical revelation, which, just
because it was historical, passed through many successive phases, and was
completed gradually”; and the conclusions at which he arrives “affect, not the
fact of revelation, but only its form. They help to determine the stages through
which it passed, the different phases which it assumed, and the process by which
the record of it was built up. They do not touch either the authority or the
inspiration of the scriptures of the Old Testament” (compare his “Isaiah,”
Preface, and “Introduction,” p. vii., New York, 1891).
Driver
is the author of numerous critical works dealing with the most important books
of Tanakh, and his “Introduction” is still one of the standard English work on
the subject. He has edited two small rabbinical works: a commentary on Jeremiah
and Ezekiel by Moses ben Sheshet, London, 1871, and one on Proverbs, attributed
to Abraham ibn Ezra, Oxford, 1880. Driver has also been a collaborator on the
second edition of Smith's “Bible Dictionary,” on Hasting's “Dictionary of the
Bible,” and on Cheyne and Black's “Encyclopædia Biblica,” and was coeditor, with
Professors Brown and Briggs, of
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon.
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