Richard Kilby (Kilbye) (1560–1620) was an

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scholar and priest.

Life

He was born in

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. He matriculated at

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on 20 December 1577, and was elected fellow on 18 January 1578. He was admitted B.A. on 9 December 1578, M.A. in 1582, B.D. and D.D. in 1596. On 10 December 1590 he was elected rector of Lincoln College. He was appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1610, and served in the "First Oxford Company" charged by

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with translating the latter part of the

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for the

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. :s:Kilbye, Richard (DNB00)

Works

He published a funeral sermon on Thomas Holland, in 1613, and also a volume of commentary on the ''

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,'' drawn from earlier

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rabbinical studies. His continuation of John Mercer's commentary on ''Genesis'' was submitted for approval (1598), but he was not allowed to print it.

References

*McClure, Alexander. (1858)
The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible
'. Mobile, Alabama: R. E. Publications (republished by the Marantha Bible Society, 1984 ASIN B0006YJPI8 ) *

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. (2003) ''God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.'' New York: HarperCollins

Notes

;Attribution 1560 births 1620 deaths Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Translators of the King James Version People from the Borough of Charnwood 16th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century English Anglican priests 16th-century translators 17th-century translators Rectors of Lincoln College, Oxford Regius Professors of Hebrew (University of Oxford) 17th-century Anglican theologians 16th-century Anglican theologians {{bible-translator-stub