Dr Sebastian Brock FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1977
- Subjects
- Religion
Summary
Born 1938 to James Brock (archaeologist) and Ursula Brock (nee Cooper, silk weaver). 1966, married to Helen M.C.Brock (nee Hughes; archaeologist). Educated at Eton College (King's Scholar), and Trinity College Cambridge (Classics and Oriental Languages [Hebrew and Aramaic]); DPhil Oxford 1966. Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) 1964-1967; Lecturer in Hebrew, then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, Cambridge University, 1967-1974; Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, then Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, 1974-2003; 2003- Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Current post
Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
Past appointments
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Formerly Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
1990 -
University of Oxford Lecturer, Reader in Aramaic and Syriac
1974 -
University of Cambridge Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic
1967 - 1974
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Alison Salvesen FBA
Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)
Professor James Montgomery FBA
Classical Arabic literature, literary translation, literary history, history of ideas.
Professor Hugh McLeod FBA
Social history of Christianity in western Europe and the USA in the 19th and 20th century, including urban and working class history, secularisation and international comparison
