The Book of Genesis, with Introduction and Notes: Text

by Samuel Rolles Driver

Publishers:

Edwin S. Gorham; Methuen & Co.

, 1904

Overview

An expansion of the lectures he gave at the School of Theology at Oxford, Samuel Rolles Drivers’ The Book of Genesis, with Introduction and Notes is an engaging exploration of Genesis authored by one of the most noted scholars the Old Testament. Using archeological, historical, linguistic, and scientific data to help elucidate his reading of Genesis, Driver’s absorbing work is an important resource for the study of the first book of Moses.

Product Details

• Title: The Book of Genesis, with Introduction and Notes: Text
• Author: Samuel Rolles Driver
• Series: Westminster Commentaries
• Publishers: Edwin S. Gorham, Methuen & Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1904
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. › Genesis
• Resource ID: LLS:BKGENINTRONTSTXT
• Resource Type: Bible
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:00:59Z

About Samuel Rolles Driver

From JewishEncyclopedia.com

Samuel Rolles Driver

English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1883; member of the Old Testament Revision Company, 1876-84.

Together with T. K. Cheyne and Robertson Smith, Driver has been one of the foremost champions of Biblical criticism in England. Driver approached it from its linguistic side ("Jour. of Phil." 1882, pp. 201-236). His first contribution, "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew" (Oxford, 1874; 3d ed., 1892), has remained the most complete presentation of the subject...In matters of criticism Driver has always taken a conservative view, showing much moderation and sympathy with the orthodox position.

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Driver 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. He 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 is coeditor, with Professors Brown and Briggs, of the Clarendon press edition of Gesenius.

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