Stanley Cook was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, 12 April 1873. He was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, BA, 1894, MA, 1899. He was a member of the editorial staff of the Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1896-1903, and an editorial adviser to the Encyclopaedia Britannica on Biblical subjects. He also edited the publications of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1902-32. He returned to Gonville and Caius College as a college lecturer in Hebrew, 1904-32, and Comparative Religion, 1912-20. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, 1932-8. He married Annette Bell, who died in 1942. He died in Cambridge, 26 September 1949.
The collection of papers, dating from 1891-1939, comprises one box of mainly notebooks and undergraduate notes.
SC/1 Draft review of Albrecht Alt, Israel und Aegypten (1909)
undated [1909]
5 sheets
SC/2 Lecture notes on the Palymrene inscriptions
1902
1 vol
English and Palmyran
SC/3 Lecture notes on the Phoenician language
1902
1 vol
English and Phoenician
SC/4 Notes on Hebrew inscriptions
1902
1 pamphlet
English and Hebrew
SC/5 Notes on the Moabite Stone
1902
1 vol
The Moabite Stone or Mesha Inscription was discovered in Dhiban, Trans-Jordan, 1868
English and Phoenician
SC/6 Notes on the Nabataean language
1902
1 pamphlet
English and Nabataean
SC/7 Lists of Semitic names in Greek and Latin inscriptions
1902
1 vol
With a list of books lent from the Bendall Library, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1930-9
English and Greek
SC/8 Notes on Ancient Palestine
1905, 1920
1 vol
With drawings
Indexed
SC/9 Notes on archaeology
1905
1 vol
Mainly comprises Greek, Phoenician and other Mediterranean sites
With drawings and a letter from Flinders Petrie, undated
Indexed
SC/10 Notes on archaeology in Palestine
1905
1 vol
With drawings
Indexed
SC/11 Notes on eschatology
1912-13
1 pamphlet
SC/12 Undergraduate notes on Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
1891
1 vol
English and Hebrew
SC/13 Undergraduate notes on Semitic languages
1891-2
1 vol
SC/14 Undergraduate notes on Syriac literature
1893-4
1 pamphlet
English and Syriac
