David Winton Thomas (26 January 1901 – 18 June 1970) was a British scholar of

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the

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from 1938 to 1968. He was one of the first pupils of

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. He also played rugby for Wales.

Selected works

*Thomas D. Winston, ''Archaeology and Old Testament Study'' (1967) *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, D. Winton 1901 births 1970 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Oxford British Hebraists Regius Professors of Hebrew (Cambridge)

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