Professor Josef Van Ess FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Year of birth
- 1934
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Last post
University of Tübingen Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Alec Ryrie FBA
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.
Professor Judith Lieu FBA
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
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
