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Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver CBE MC FBA (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R. Driver , was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology .[1] His father was considered the "most distinguished British Hebraist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries".
Driver was born in Oxford , England , son of the noted English biblical scholar Samuel Rolles Driver , and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford , (1911–1915) where he won the Pusey and Ellerton and Senior Kennicott Hebrew Scholarships and the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose (1913) and for Greek verse (1916).
After serving in World War I , with tasks as varied as hospital work, postal censorship, and intelligence, in 1919, he was named fellow and classical tutor in Magdalen College, Oxford . He remained at Oxford for his entire career, ultimately as Professor of Semitic Philology, and produced a steady stream of scholarly articles on subjects including vocabulary of the Old Testament , and words and texts in the Akkadian , Arabic , Aramaic , Hebrew , and Syriac languages .
From 1937 to 1938 Driver was the president of the Society for Old Testament Study , unusually for a two-year period. In 1959, he was the president of the third congress of The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament .
He directed the translation of the Old Testament for the New English Bible from its inception in 1949, completed and first published in 1970.
He was knighted in 1968.[3]
Selected works [ edit ]
Letters of the first Babylonian dynasty , OECT III, 1925.
Studies in Cappadocian Tablets , Paris, 1927.
Semitic Writing: From Pictograph to Alphabet , 1948 (Schweich Lectures for 1944).
The Babylonian Laws , with J. C. Miles, Oxford, 1952–1955.
Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C. , Oxford, 1954 (Abridged and Revised edition 1957).
Canaanite Myths and Legends , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956.
The Judaean scrolls: The problem and a solution , Oxford: Blackwell, 1965.
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