D. Winton Thomas
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David Winton Thomas (26 January 1901 – 18 June 1970) was a British scholar of Hebrew. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1938 to 1968.{{cite journal | last1 = Emerton | first1 = J. A. | author-link = John Emerton | title = The Work of David Winton Thomas as a Hebrew Scholar | journal = Vetus Testamentum | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | pages = 287–303 | date=July 1991 | doi = 10.1163/156853391X00270 | jstor = 1519069}} He was one of the first pupils of Godfrey Rolles Driver.{{Cite journal | last1 = Emerton | first1 = J. A. | author-link1 = John Emerton| doi = 10.1515/zatw.1970.82.3.V | title = David Winton Thomas | journal = Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft | volume = 82 | issue = 3 | year = 1970 | s2cid = 170720677 }} He also played rugby for Wales.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzNDCgAAQBAJ&q=david+winton+thomas+rugby&pg=PT106 |title = East West Street: Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017|isbn = 9781474601924|last1 = Sands|first1 = Philippe|date = 2016-05-26}}
See also
Selected works
- Thomas D. Winston, Archaeology and Old Testament Study (1967)
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Thomas|editor1-first=D. Winton|editor2-last=McHardy|editor2-first=W. D.|editor2-link=David Winton Thomas|title=Hebrew and Semitic Studies: Essays Presented to G. R. Driver|date=1963|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0198154273}}
- Thomas D. Winston, Documents from Old Testament Times (1958)
- Thomas D. Winston, Wisdom in Israel and in the Ancient Near East presented to Professor Harold Henry Rowley, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum III (1955)
You can find a complete bibliography of David Windon Thomas in:+ Peter R. Ackroyd and Barnabas Lindars (Ed.), Words dans Meanings / Essays presented to David Winton Thomas on his retirement frome the Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, 1968, Cambridge University Press, 1968, pp.217-228.
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