Francis Crawford Burkitt

Francis Burkitt FBA
Born	Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-09-03)3 September 1864
Died	11 May 1935(1935-05-11) (aged 70)
Nationality	English
Academic background
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Influences	William Sanday[1] William Wright[2]
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies philology theology
Sub-discipline	New Testament studies Syriac studies
School or tradition	Anglicanism[3]
Institutions	Trinity College, Cambridge

Francis Crawford Burkitt

Burkitt was educated at

Burkitt was a noted figure at Cambridge in 1912–1935 for his chairmanship of the Cambridge New Testament Seminar, attended by other prominent theologians, including Robert Newton Flew, who left an account of it in an obituary for Burkitt in the Proceedings of the British Academy.^[8] He was also president of the Cambridge Philological Society from 1904 to 1905. Burkitt was one of the founding member of the Cambridge Theological Society that was dedicated to research, and president from 1907-09.^[9]

Personal life

Burkitt married Amy Persis in 1888.

Burkitt died suddenly at his home on West Road, Cambridge on 11 May 1935, aged 70.^[6]

Honours

The Burkitt Medal, awarded by the British Academy, is named in his honour.^[10]

Works

Books

• Burkitt, Francis C. (1894). The Book of Rules of Tyconius: newly edited from the mss., with an introduction and an examination into the text of the Biblical quotations. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 6132125
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C.;
  OCLC 2433500
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1896). The Old Latin and the Itala: With an appendix containing the text of the S. Gallen Palimpsest of Jeremiah. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 3314332
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1899). Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire, two lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin . Cambridge, England: The University Press.
  OCLC 457206218 – via Wikisource. [scan 
  ]
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1901). Two Lectures on the Gospels. London & New York: Macmillan.
  OCLC 3381853
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1901). Saint Ephraim's Quotations From The Gospel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 3792630
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C.;
  OCLC 4107994
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1904). Early Eastern Christianity: Saint Margaret's Lectures on the Syriac Speaking Church 1904. London: John Murray.
  OCLC 941047442
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1904). Evangelion da-mepharreshe: The Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest. I. Text; II: Introduction and Notes. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 557772466
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1907). The Gospel History and its Transmission. Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1914). Jewish and Christian Apocalypses:
  OCLC 458985970
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1924). Christian Beginnings: Three Lectures. London: University of London Press.
  OCLC 253528260
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1925). The Religion of the Manichees:
  OCLC 79046876
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C.;
  OCLC 1091929228
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1930). Christian Worship. Christian religion, its origin and progress. 3. The church of to-day, pt. 2. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 1014109
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C.; Gardner-Smith, P.;
  OCLC 912955287
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1932). Jesus Christ: An Historical Outline. London: Blackie & Son.
  OCLC 472794866
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C. (1932). Church and Gnosis: a Study of Christian Thought and Speculation in the Second Century: The Morse lectures for 1931. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  OCLC 640005752
  .
• Burkitt, Francis C.;
  OCLC 1096531998
  .