Robert Lubbock Bensly
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Robert Lubbock Bensly was an English Orientalist.
He was educated at King's College London
, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
, studied in Germany, and was appointed reader in Hebrew at Gonville and Caius College
1863. He was elected Fellow 1876; became lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac in his college; was made Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic 1887; examiner in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament in the University of London
.
He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company; and accompanied Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson
on the 1893 trip to Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
following the sisters' discovery there the previous year of a palimpsest
of the Gospels in Syriac. Bensly, together with Francis Crawford Burkitt
, played an important role in deciphering the text on this second trip.
He has edited The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered and edited with an Introduction and Notes (Cambridge, 1875); contributed The Harklean Version of Heb. xi, 28–xiii, 25 to the Proceedings of the Congress of Orientalists of 1889; assisted in the editing of the Sinaitic palimpsest; edited IV Maccabees (to which he devoted twenty-seven years of labor), published posthumously (Cambridge, 1895); wrote Our Journey to Sinai, Visit to the Convent of St. Catarina, with a chapter on the Sinai Palimpsest (pyblished posthumously London, 1896); and edited St. Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians in Syriac (published posthumously London, 1899).
He was educated at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...
, studied in Germany, and was appointed reader in Hebrew at Gonville and Caius College
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...
1863. He was elected Fellow 1876; became lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac in his college; was made Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic 1887; examiner in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament in the University of London
University of London
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He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company; and accompanied Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson
Agnes and Margaret Smith
Agnes Smith Lewis PhD LLD DD LittD and Margaret Dunlop Gibson LLD DD LittD , nées Agnes and Margaret Smith , were Semitic scholars...
on the 1893 trip to Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
following the sisters' discovery there the previous year of a palimpsest
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος originally compounded from πάλιν and ψάω literally meaning “scraped...
of the Gospels in Syriac. Bensly, together with Francis Crawford Burkitt
Francis Crawford Burkitt
Francis Crawford Burkitt was a British theologian and scholar. He was Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, from 1905 until shortly before his death. Burkitt was a sturdy critic of the notion of a distinct "Caesarean Text" of the New Testament put forward by B. H...
, played an important role in deciphering the text on this second trip.
He has edited The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered and edited with an Introduction and Notes (Cambridge, 1875); contributed The Harklean Version of Heb. xi, 28–xiii, 25 to the Proceedings of the Congress of Orientalists of 1889; assisted in the editing of the Sinaitic palimpsest; edited IV Maccabees (to which he devoted twenty-seven years of labor), published posthumously (Cambridge, 1895); wrote Our Journey to Sinai, Visit to the Convent of St. Catarina, with a chapter on the Sinai Palimpsest (pyblished posthumously London, 1896); and edited St. Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians in Syriac (published posthumously London, 1899).