British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Graham Davies
Professor of Old Testament Studies, University of Cambridge
Year Elected: 2003
A leading Old Testament scholar, his corpus and concordance of Hebrew inscriptions is the standard work, and includes the text of all known Hebrew inscriptions before 200 BC. His studies on philological and textual subjects, based on a mastery of Hebrew and other Semitic languages and also of Greek and Latin, shed new light on biblical and other texts and the ancient versions.