David Wilkins (orientalist)
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David Wilkins (1685-1745), originally named Wilke or Wilkius, was a Prussian-born orientalist, who settled in England.
He became Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. He was supported by William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, who gave him employment. His 1716 publication of the Coptic New Testament was the editio princeps.
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- Targum sael Dibre haj-Jamim risonim we-aharonim = Paraphrasis Chaldaica in librum chronicorum (1715)
- Novum Testamentum Aegyptium, vulgo Copticum (1716)
- Leges Anglo-Saxonicae ecclesiasticae et civiles (1721)
- Bohairic Pentateuch (1731)
- Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae (1737)
