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British theologian and academic (born 1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson OBE FBA (born 15 July 1947) is a theologian and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2014,[1] a position he now holds as Emeritus.[2]
Williamson has authored major commentaries on Ezra/Nehemiah in the Word Biblical Commentary series and a multi-volumed commentary of Isaiah 1-27 for the International Critical Commentary series. For the latter, volume 1 was published in 2006 and volume 2 in 2019.[2]
He has been chairman of the British Academy’s Humanities Group and also chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.[3]
He remains secretary to the executive committee of the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database project.[2]
Williamson remains active in his research interests, which include the Book of Isaiah and the Achaemenid Period history and literature.[3]
A festschrift was published in 2012 for H. G. M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.[4]
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to scholarship and theology.[5][6]