Larry Hurtado

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Larry Hurtado

Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
DiedNovember 25, 2019(2019-11-25) (aged 75)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Academic background
Alma mater
New Testament studies
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMichael J. Kruger[1]
Notable works
  • Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (2003)[2][3]
  • How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus (2005)[4]
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Larry Weir Hurtado

scholar, historian of early Christianity, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at the University of Edinburgh (1996–2011). He was the head of the School of Divinity from 2007 to 2010, and was until August 2011[5] Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins[6]
at the University of Edinburgh.

Biography

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 29, 1943, Hurtado was educated at Central Bible College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.[7] He completed his Ph.D. in 1973 at Case Western Reserve University under the supervision of Eldon Jay Epp with the dissertation Codex Washingtonianus in the Gospel of Mark: Its Textual Relationships and Scribal Characteristics.[7]

His first academic appointment was at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he taught from 1975 to 1978. Prior to moving to Canada in 1975 he pastored a church in Skokie, Illinois. Thereafter he moved to the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, where he was promoted to full Professor in 1988 and taught until 1996. During his time there, he established the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities and served as initial Director from 1990 to 1992. Shortly after his appointment at the University of Edinburgh, he established the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins, which focuses on Christianity in the first three centuries.

He made significant advances in understanding

Apostle Paul, early Christology, the Jewish background of the New Testament, and textual criticism of the New Testament. He was perhaps most well known for his studies on the early emergence of a devotion to Jesus expressed in beliefs about Jesus sharing God's glory, and in a "devotional pattern" in which Jesus features prominently. Hurtado argued that this Jesus-devotion comprises a novel "mutation" in ancient Jewish monotheistic practice. In his later publications, he also urged greater awareness of the historical value of earliest Christian manuscripts as key physical artefacts of early Christianity, drawing attention to such phenomena as the nomina sacra (distinctive abbreviated forms of certain Greek words, e.g., Theos, Iesous, Kyrios, Christos), the Christian preference for the codex book form, and a number of other features.[8]

He was elected a member of the

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). He gave invited lectures in many universities in the UK and other countries, and was a visiting fellow at Macquarie University
in Australia in 2005.

The School of Divinity announced that Hurtado had died of cancer in his sleep on November 25, 2019.[9] Holly J. Carey (Point University) wrote an obituary in his honour on Christianity Today.[10]

Works

Books

As editor

Articles and chapters

References

  1. ^ "About Me". Canon Fodder. Charlotte, North Carolina: Michael J. Kruger. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ISBN 978-1-60258-175-3
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  3. ^ "Professor Larry Hurtado (1943–2019)". University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. December 22, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  4. ISSN 0014-3367
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  5. ^ "New Director", CSCO Announcement
  6. ^ "Centre for the Study of Christian Origins". Retrieved November 29, 2019.
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-60258-175-3
    .
  8. ^ Staff Page Archived May 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Remembering Larry Hurtado, Leading Researcher of Early Christian Worship". Christianity Today. November 27, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  10. ^ Carey, Holly J. (November 27, 2019). "Remembering Larry Hurtado, Leading Researcher of Early Christian Worship". Christianity Today. Retrieved September 15, 2021.

External links

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