Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson (born 15 July 1947) is a
theologian
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and academic. He was
Regius Professor of Hebrew at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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from 1992 to 2014, a position he now holds as
Emeritus
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.
Career
Williamson has authored major commentaries on Ezra/Nehemiah in the
Word Biblical Commentary
The Word Biblical Commentary (WBC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Bible both Old and New Testament. It is currently published by the Zondervan Publishing Company. Initially published under the "Word Books" imprint, t ...
series and a multi-volumed commentary of Isaiah 1-27 for the
International Critical Commentary
The International Critical Commentary (or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament and New Testament. It is currently published by T&T Clark, now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
Initially started over one ...
series. For the latter, volume 1 was published in 2006 and volume 2 in 2019.
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He has been chairman of the British Academy’s Humanities Group and also chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.][
Williamson remains active in his research interests, which include the Book of Isaiah and the Achaemenid Period history and literature.][
A festschrift was published in 2012 for H. G. M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
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Honours
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to scholarship and theology.2015 New Year Honours List
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1947 births
Fellows of the British Academy
Regius Professors of Hebrew (University of Oxford)
Living people
Old Testament scholars
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Bible commentators
Presidents of the Society for Old Testament Study