Professor Hugh Williamson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1993
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
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
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Susanna Elm FBA
Social, economic, and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean; the transformation of the Roman empire into a predominantly Christian one; slavery, “Augustine the Economist,” imperial representation, war and resilience
Professor Alison Salvesen FBA
Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA
Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
