DR. DRIVER AND HIS WORK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2147, 13 May 1914, Page 8

DR. DRIVER AND HIS WORK

.i—■ ■ . : ■% .- . ■ .. - , TRIBUTE BY PR.OWSSOR SANMY. Dr. Saiiday, Lady Margaret IVofessar of Divinity, paid » .tribute to the- lato Cijnon Driver at tlie Caflicdrai. Ciw-ist Cihirch, Oxford. 11l referring to Dr. Driver's \v<a ( k ha said it njanstiiuted- certainly <?ue '.of the greatest assists, ami, he wis persaiutll}' inclined,to. tshiirk, the greatest asset thai the Oxford of Br. Dither's generation ivarl to 's'hott. There was, ill tlio first [tee,, tlio class ■of highly techhisml work thai was done by ail.export of experts., at least in Ike first instance. Stick would be the work of tho Hebrew, toftsos by wMek Dr, - , Driver first 'made his frame, tire Work on I.evitfetts and on ike test .of tlio. Rooks.of SajJiuclj, the iiii.portajit eont-ribfttiei.i whisli 1)B mitd© to tkp great Hebrew Lexicon, iriiich ivoufd he the standard authority for many a long .year. Ik«i nest tlier'e was Stat very important public work tko Rev-isod. Voisioiu. liiis rajist iiavi! invoked, great labour, for Ike .eight years during which Dr. Driver. was. engaged upon it. He.. airier. Gl.tpyiw w.cri l really among tko leading .Eebf.list's on Urn committee., ai.id ■ihbir coiVfribittio-DS limsjt kavi been tlio Misfe't valuable elements in tiro work.' .Probably ninny of these wen'o elii'beddi;<i ■in .the ntargirtal readings a.nd renderings. _ Dr. Driver w'n ; s a.hvjij's'.h. grotti n.iitlin* - sinst for the lise of the. Revised Version, nikt ho kid special stress oil fliis importance of the nw.relfis. Xo dffiibfc they repTCS&iited th*c views of U tumor* ity among tke revisers, but it was just a lfjnority of tire best scholars, if only tlio New Tcstalji.ent. Ir.nl lifr-tiji carried out on the sains. principle rtiid with this s;nmt> K-kiU as the Old, tkero wr-rf> otJiws Of tjici'ii who would kavo 'had lew f'("'lkgs so io tire flortiplc't-o success of ike work As a whole. Dr. Drivp-r had left bekiird kirn a. Sdioat, ,i Soketei! »s sound iis a'fiv in Christendom, fully a-liroast ol all tlwjiw knowlpdsj!t>, and yet sober, solid,'Ml-of aniplo '}Wmftisi> for tiro. Waive. The Rev. G. A. Cwkc. DP... »r;*l Professor 0? (be ■lntM-prrtrtlio-Jl flf kto'fy • Soripturo as 'Osford ttitd Ca-nou <vf .Rorithas k;»eH appmutfrl Ifegms Professor of Hrktw -mid Camm of Okrir.fc Cliureli, Orford, in Mirepfsimi t-o Uu late IV-ofo&w S.'H. Driver, l>.t). "The ap.paintiHeiit of Dr. Cooke, in | suecessimi tfl the late Dr. Driver, lins ! been geueraftv -ps-peo-teil,*' sa.vs Iht? "TiMies. 1 ' "Dr. Coakfl was Iwrn in IB6o', wn-s ptiuoaied nt. Morekaiit Taylors'' School, and' 1 Was a sdinkr of Wadliam. ih was eaWcd tw OxAird tti 1 DOS to stm" eeed D'r, ChsylK! in the 'Oriel I'fof'oßsorsjtip, to u'Wch a cavienrv jii R.ocheslor Catiiedfii! is attaMiei'l.., D.'r. Cflake is llvd author of riiritJijs books on Old Tost-a-inwi't subjects, aiTti Ims eoivlfi'lm'ted" niaiiy nrtirtfes W't-litStUrfes's D'iclio.uary of tko Ifflde, the Elieyelftpjieftiii UfWta, and various His i-vnjjDrtaitt-bnwk «ii Koi'M.i Semitic. liise'ripHo.i'is is dedfPritol to .-'Dr. P'riror, lo wJiiini ike. lias freortoiitly expressed fke gfflt.itijdo .- ■of a p'liui'l to a veneratod ilKster..''' ■;