COWLEY, SIR ARTHUR ERNEST°
- COWLEY, SIR ARTHUR ERNEST°
- COWLEY, SIR ARTHUR ERNEST° (1861–1931), English Orientalist
and bibliographer. Cowley's main interest from his school days was
Hebrew and Jewish studies, but at Oxford he studied classics and his
Semitic scholarship was largely self-taught. He became A.
Neubauer 's assistant in the bodleian library in 1896,
succeeded him in 1899, and from 1919 was himself the Bodleian's
librarian. Cowley's achievements in Jewish scholarship are
paleographical, bibliographical, and interpretative. He published (at
first with Neubauer) recovered Hebrew portions of Ecclesiasticus (1897,
1901), and (at first with A.H. Sayce) the Assouan (elephantine )
Jewish-Aramaic papyri (1906, 1923). He completed vol. 2 of Neubauer's
catalog of Bodleian Hebrew manuscripts and produced a concise catalog of
its Hebrew printed books (1929, reduced from Steinschneider's catalog).
Besides the papyri, Cowley edited – as his main work – The
Samaritan Liturgy (2 vols., 1909). He taught rabbinics for the
university, and a lectureship at Oxford in post-biblical Hebrew
commemorates his name.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
T.W. Allen, in: Proceedings of the British Academy, 19
(1933), 351–9; G.R. Driver, in: DNB, 5 Supplement (1949),
194–5. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB
online.
(Raphael Loewe)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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