Difference between revisions of "Herbert Danby (1889-1953), scholar"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Danby Wikipedia] | |||
[[Category:Scholars|Danby]] | [[Category:Scholars|Danby]] | ||
[[Category:British|Danby]] | [[Category:British|Danby]] | ||
[[Category:Born in the 1880s|Danby]] | [[Category:Born in the 1880s|Danby]] | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 12 October 2009
Herbert Danby (1889-1953) was a British scholar.
Biography
Anglican priest, theologian, Hebraist. Canon at St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, from 1923 to 1936. Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1936. As a translator, promoted the knowledge of the work of Hebrew writers and scholars (notably, Klausner). His work significantly contributed to the decline of anti-semitism in intellectual circles.