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S. R. Driver (1846–1914)

Author of The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon

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S. R. Driver (1846-1914) was professor of Hebrew at Oxford University.

Works by S. R. Driver

The Book of Exodus (1911) 28 copies
The Book of Daniel (1901) 23 copies
The Books of Joel and Amos (1898) 22 copies
Studies in the Psalms (1915) 17 copies
Book of Job 1 copy

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Studies in the Psalms is comprised of various studies of the theologian S. R. Driver. Sermons given at Christ Church Cathedral, as well as some published articles on the Psalms, are included in this volume. Together, they combine to give a practical picture of how to study and interpret this Old Testament book.
 
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Rawderson_Rangel | Sep 2, 2022 |
What I like about this lexicon is the comparative information from other Semitic languages. In general it is useful and straightforward.

The groupings of definitions into senses is very well done in my opinion, as far as my knowledge of biblical Hebrew goes. I frequently find that it covers all extant senses of each word quite thoroughly.

It is always really strange, though, to realize that the creator firmly believed that Indo-European and Semitic languages were related. In the linguistics world that is an obvious mistake and one that causes semantic aberrations in many of the definitions. For instance, under the demonstrative pronoun זה (Strongs 2090), the Sanskrit, Latin and Greek pronouns are given for comparison, when there is no etymological relation between these words and the Hebrew words.

In comparison to other Semitic lexica, I like that, unlike Arabic lexica (Hans Wehr, etc.), this lexicon lists words by lexeme and not by root. The grouping of words by root is semantically misleading to the uninitiated (i.e. it leads to etymological fallacy) and makes finding words a challenging exercise for scholars doing comparative work without language-specific training (because they cannot always quickly identify citation forms).
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