Davidson, ANDREW BRUCE, D.D., LL.D.

Davidson, ANDREW BRUCE, D.D., LL.D., born in Aberdeenshire in 1831, was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and at the Free Church College, Edinburgh, where in 1863 he was appointed to the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis. In this capacity he has since laboured quietly, but has exercised a quite unusual personal influence upon his students, and through them has done much to leaven the Free Church with a critical spirit that is fearless in method, but reverent in spirit, and in the best sense conservative of the real essentials of faith. With a singular reticence and self-repression, Dr Davidson, beyond an occasional sermon or article in the Expositor, has seldom spoken outside his lecture-room, and has published little, and that rather suggestive than demonstrative of his power as an exegete. He was throughout a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. His books are a short treatise on Hebrew accentuation (1861), an unfinished commentary on Job (1862), a thoroughly serviceable Introductory Hebrew Grammar (1874), and admirable short school Commentaries on Job, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and Ezekiel.