Professor Hugh Williamson FBA

Theology, the Middle East

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1993
Subjects: Religion
Sections: Theology and Religious Studies
Website: https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/hugh-gm-williamson#/

Summary

Hugh Williamson studied Theology as an undergraduate and graduate student in Cambridge before teaching Hebrew and Aramaic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies there from 1975–1992. He was then Regius Professor of Hebrew in Oxford and a Student of Christ Church until 2014. During the first part of his career his research focused (with monographs and commentaries) on the books of Chronicles and of Ezra-Nehemiah. Since then he has focussed on the book of Isaiah, again with two monographs and a three-volumed commentary (ongoing) on the Hebrew text of chapters 1–27. In addition to textual and philological emphases his work also engages with historical concerns informed by his experience over many years in excavations at Lachish and Jezreel in Israel.

Current post

Regius Professor of Hebrew Emeritus, University of Oxford and Student, Christ Church

Past appointments

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Hebrew Emeritus

2014 -

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford and Student, Christ Church

1992 -

University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader in Hebrew and Aramaic

1975 -

Publications

Isaiah 1-5

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 2006

Studies in Persian Period History and Historiography

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 2004

Variations on a Theme: King, Messiah and Servant in the Book of Isaiah

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 1998

The book called Isaiah: Deutero-Isaiah's role in composition and redaction

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 1994

Ezra, Nehemiah

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 1985

1 and 2 Chronicles

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 1982

Israel in the Books of Chronicles

H.G.M. Williamson - Published in 1977

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Professor Stephanie Jamison FBA

Indo-Iranian and Indo-European comparative linguistics, poetics, mythology, religion, and customary law; concentrating especially on Vedic Sanskrit philology and the development of early Sanskrit and Middle-Indo-Aryan

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