Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis

The Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis is a professorship or chair in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, England. Formerly in the Faculty of Theology, the chair resides now in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. The chair was established in 1904 as one of two chairs endowed by Enriqueta Rylands in the former Faculty of Theology which was founded the same year.^[1] George J. Brooke was the most recent Rylands Professor, occupying the chair from 1997 to January 2016. ^[2]

Former holders

Arthur Peake, 1904-1929
C. H. Dodd, 1930-1935
Thomas Walter Manson, 1936-1958
F. F. Bruce, 1959-1978
Barnabas Lindars SSF, 1978-1990
Christopher M. Tuckett, 1991-1996
George J. Brooke, 1997-2016

References

↑
- Farnie, D. A. (1989). "Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, 1843–1908, Founder of the John Rylands Library". Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 71 (2): 3–38. ; p. 35
↑ George Brooke, research profile; University of Manchester (The)

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[1] 
Farnie, D. A. (1989). "Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, 1843–1908, Founder of the John Rylands Library". Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 71 (2): 3–38. ; p. 35

[mwGg] Farnie, D. A. (1989). "Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, 1843–1908, Founder of the John Rylands Library". Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 71 (2): 3–38. ; p. 35

[2] George Brooke, research profile; University of Manchester (The)