Hugh G. M. Williamson
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Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson (born 15 July 1947) is a
theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
from 1992 to 2014, a position he now holds as
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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. He has been chairman of the British Academy’s Humanities Group and also chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society. He remains secretary to the executive committee of the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database project. 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.


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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williamson, Hugh G. M. 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