Godfrey Rolles Driver
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Professor Godfrey Rolles Driver (August 20, 1892 - April 22, 1975) was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology.
Driver was born in Oxford, England, son of the noted English 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.
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.
[edit] Selected works
- 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.
- Canaanite Myths and Legends, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956.
- Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C., Oxford, 1965.
[edit] References
- D. J. Wiseman, "Obituary: Sir Godfrey Driver", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1976), pp. 160-163.
- CDLI Wiki
