Richard Laurence

Richard Laurence (1760–1838) was an English Hebraist and Anglican churchman. He was made Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1814, and Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland, in 1822.

Laurence, younger brother of jurist French Laurence, was born in Bath and was educated at Bath Grammar School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His chief contribution to Biblical scholarship was his study of the Ethiopic versions of certain pseudepigrapha: Ascensio Isaiæ Vatis (Oxford, 1819); Primi Ezræ Libri ... Versio Æthiopica (ib. 1820); The Book of Enoch the Prophet (ib. 1821; other ed. 1832, 1838), from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library brought from Abyssinia by James Bruce; these were all provided with Latin and English translations. Though these editions have been superseded, through the discovery of better texts and the employment of better critical methods, Laurence is entitled to the credit of having revived the study of Ethiopic, which had been neglected in England since the time of Walton. He published also The Book of Job (Dublin, 1828) — the Authorized Version, arranged in conformity with the Masoretic text.

He died in Dublin in 1838.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Laurence, Richard". Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
Goodwin, Gordon (1892). "Laurence, Richard". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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Works by or about Richard Laurence in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Anglican Archbishops of Cashel

James MacCawell Miler Magrath Malcolm Hamilton Archibald Hamilton Thomas Fulwar Thomas Price Narcissus Marsh William Palliser William Nicolson Timothy Goodwin Theophilus Bolton Arthur Price John Whitcombe Michael Cox Charles Agar Charles Brodrick Richard Laurence

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