Burkitt, Francis Crawford, 1864-1935 (biblical scholar)

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Dates

Existence: 1864 - 1935

Biography

Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was educated at Harrow, before studying divinity at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became university lecturer in palaeography in 1903, and was Norrisian professor of divinity at Cambridge, 1905-35. His publications included 'Text and Versions' in the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903); an edition of the old Syriac Gospels (1904); The Gospel History and its Transmission (1906); Eucharist and Sacrifice (1921); liturgical and Franciscan studies; and works on Mancichaeism and Gnosticism. He was practising member of the Church of England modernist School.

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Francis Crawford Burkitt: Transcript of the Passio Machabeorum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5339

Scope and Contents

Made from a 13th century manuscript at S. Maria de Bona Spe, diocese of Cambrai, 17 folios.

Dates: 1884

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