J. Duncan M. Derrett

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John Duncan Martin Derrett (30 August 1922 – 21 October 2012) was Professor of Oriental Laws in the University of London, from 1965 to 1982, and afterwards Emeritus Professor.^[1][2]

Derrett was educated at

Derrett appeared briefly in Dr Robert Beckford's television documentary The Hidden Story of Jesus (premiered on Channel 4 on 25 December 2007) discussing similarities between some Christian and Buddhist teachings and possible historical reasons for those similarities.^[3] With his "A Blemmya in India" (Numen Vol. 49, No. 4 (2002), pp. 460–474) Dr. Derrett argued that "Blemmiya" were Africans, and Buddhists, in India.

Books

• The Hoysalas (1957)
• Introduction to Modern Hindu Law (1963)
• Studies in the Laws of Succession in Nigeria (1965)
• Oriental Lawyer Looks at the Trial of Jesus and the Doctrine of the Redemption (Inaugural Lectures) (1966)
• An introduction to legal systems (1968)
• Religion, Law and the State in India (Law in India) (1968, 1999)
• Law in the New Testament (1970)
• Jesus' Audience: The social and psychological environment in which He worked; prolegomena to a restatement of the teaching of Jesus. Lectures at Newquay (1972)
• Henry Swinburne (? 1551–1624), Civil Lawyer of York (Borthwick Papers) (1973)
• Dharmasastra and juridical literature (A History of Indian literature. Vol. 4, Scientific and technical literature) (1973)
• Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Dharmasastra and Related Ideas v. 1 (Asian Studies) (1976)
• Studies in the New Testament: Glimpses of the Legal and Social Presuppositions of the Authors v. 1 (1977)
• Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Consequences of the Intellectual Exchange with the Foreign Powers (1977)
• Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Anglo-Hindu Legal Problems (1977)
• Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Current Problems and the Legacy of the Past (1978)
• Studies in the New Testament: Midrash in Action and as a Literary Device v. 2 (1978)
• Beiträge zu indischem Rechtsdenken (Studien zu nichteuropäischen Rechtstheorien) (1979)
• Dr. St. John: A civil lawyer in the Indies (1980)
• Anastasis, The: Resurrection of Jesus as an Historical Event (1982)
• Making of Mark: Scriptural Bases of the Earliest Gospel (1985)
• Studies in the New Testament: Midrash, Haggadah and the Character of the Community v. 3 (1985)
• Studies in the New Testament: Midrash, the Composition of Gospels and Discipline v. 4 (Biblical Studies) (1986)
• New Resolutions of Old Conundrums: Fresh Insight into Luke's Gospel (1987)
• Studies in the New Testament: The Sea-change of the Old Testament in the New v. 5 (Studies in the New Testament) (1989)
• The Ascetic Discourse: An Explanation of the Sermon on the Mount (1989)
• The Victim : The Johannine Passion Narrative Reexamined (1993)
• Sermon on the Mount: A Manual for Living (1994)
• Prophecy in the Cotswolds 1803–1947: Joanna Southcott and Spiritual Reform (1994)
• Studies in Hindu law: Law and religion in ancient India : family law in ancient India (with an account of modern developments) (Pubblicazioni di "Indologica taurienensia" : collana di letture) (1994)
• Studies in the New Testament: Jesus Among Biblical Exegetes v. 6 (Studies in the New Testament) (1995)
• Two Masters: Buddha and Jesus (1995)
• Some Telltale Words in the New Testament (1997)
• Law and Morality (1998)
• The Bible and the Buddhists (Bibbia e Oriente. Supplementum) (2000)

Translations

• The Classical Law of India by Robert Lingat (1967, in French), English translation by J Duncan M Derrett (1973)

Reviews

• Review of
  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, July 1953^[4]