Robert Lubbock Bensly
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Robert Lubbock Bensly (born Eaton, Norfolk, England, August 24, 1831; died at Cambridge, April 23, 1893) was an English Orientalist.
He was educated at King's College London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; studied in Germany; was appointed reader in Hebrew at Gonville and Caius College 1863. He was elected Fellow 1876; became lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac in his college; was made Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic 1887; examiner is the Hebrew text of the Old Testament in the University of London.
He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company; he accompanied Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson on the trip to Sinai on which the palimpsest of the Syriac Gospels was discovered.
He has edited The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered and edited with an Introduction and Notes (Cambridge, 1875); contributed The Harklean Version of Heb. xi, 28–xiii, 25 to the Proceedings of the Congress of Orientalists of 1889; assisted in the editing of the Sinaitic palimpsest; edited IV Maccabees (to which he devoted twenty-seven years of labor), published posthumously (Cambridge, 1895); wrote Our Journey to Sinai, Visit to the Convent of St. Catarina, with a chapter on the Sinai Palimpsest (London, 1896); edited St. Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians in Syriac (London, 1899).
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- H. T. Francis, In Memoriam R. L. Bensly, Cambridge, 1893; DNB; Supplement, vol. i, 171.
