Professor David Parker FBA

The textual criticism of the New Testament; the study of Greek & Latin manuscripts of the New Testament; editing the New Testament; digital tools for textual scholarship

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2012
Subjects: Religion
Sections: Theology and Religious Studies
Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/parker-david.aspx

Current post

Professor of Digital Philology, University of Birmingham

Past appointments

University of Birmingham Director, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing

2013 - 2017

Publications

Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament 2012

An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts 2008

The Living Text of the Gospels 1997

Codex Sinaiticus. The Story of the World's Oldest Bible 2010

Codex Bezae. An Early Christian Manuscript and Its Text 1992

Manuscripts, Texts, Theology. Collected Papers 1977-2007 2010

The New Testament in Greek IV. The Gospel According to St. John Edited by the American And British Committees of the International Greek New Testament Project. Volume Two The Majuscules 2007

The New Testament in Greek IV. The Gospel According to St. John Edited by the American And British Committees of the International Greek New Testament Project. Volume One The Papyri 1995

Paul's Letter to the Colossians by Philip Melanchthon, translated with an introduction and notes 1989

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA

Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.

Professor Pauline Allen FBA

Early Christian literature, especially the study of letters and homilies and the edition of Greek texts; translations from Greek and Latin

Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.

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