Larry Hurtado
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Larry Hurtado Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | |
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Died | November 25, 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 75)
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New Testament studies | |
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Doctoral students | Michael J. Kruger[1] |
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Website | larryhurtado |
Larry Weir Hurtado
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
He was elected a member of the
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
- Hurtado, Larry W. (1981). Text-Critical Methodology and the Pre-Caesarean Text: Codex W in the Gospel of Mark. Studies and Documents. Vol. 43. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 7206722.
- ——— (1988). One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press. OCLC 17234318.
- ——— (1990). Mark. New International Biblical Commentary. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. OCLC 20693882.
- ——— (1999). At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion, the 1999 Didsbury Lectures. Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press. OCLC 44133065.
- ——— (2003). Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 51623141.
- ——— (2005). How on Earth did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 61461917.
- ——— (2006). The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 70668672.
- ——— (2010). God in New Testament Theology. Library of Biblical Theology. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. OCLC 891464651.
- ——— (2016). Destroyer of the Gods: early Christian distinctiveness in the Roman World. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. OCLC 950202343.
- ——— (2016). Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries?. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. ISBN 9781626005044.
- ——— (2018). Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press. ISBN 9781683590965.
As editor
- ———, ed. (2006). The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: fresh studies of an American treasure trove. Text-Critical Studies. Vol. 6. OCLC 69423242.
- ———; OCLC 670507593.
Articles and chapters
- ——— (1997). "Greco-Roman Textuality and the Gospel of Mark: A Critical Assessment of Werner Kelber's The Oral and the Written Gospel". Bulletin for Biblical Research. 7: 91–106. JSTOR 26422322.
- ——— (1999). "New Testament Studies at the Turn of the Millennium: Questions for the Discipline". Scottish Journal of Theology. 52 (2): 158–178. S2CID 170502319.
- ——— (2003). "Homage to the Historical Jesus and Early Christian Devotion". Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus. 1 (2): 131–46. .
- ——— (2018). "Observations on the "Monotheism" Affirmed in the New Testament". In Beeley, Christopher A.; Weedman, Mark E. (eds.). The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 50–70. ISBN 978-0813229959.
References
- ^ "About Me". Canon Fodder. Charlotte, North Carolina: Michael J. Kruger. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-60258-175-3.
- ^ "Professor Larry Hurtado (1943–2019)". University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. December 22, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ISSN 0014-3367.
- ^ "New Director", CSCO Announcement
- ^ "Centre for the Study of Christian Origins". Retrieved November 29, 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60258-175-3.
- ^ Staff Page Archived May 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Remembering Larry Hurtado, Leading Researcher of Early Christian Worship". Christianity Today. November 27, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
- ^ Carey, Holly J. (November 27, 2019). "Remembering Larry Hurtado, Leading Researcher of Early Christian Worship". Christianity Today. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Larry Hurtado's page at The University of Edinburgh
- John the Baptizer, Jewish Judea, and the Virginal Conception, from a discussion called Jesus and the Gospel—What Really Happened?
- That Curious Idea of Resurrection
- The Gospel of Judas: The text, the scholarship, and the scandal
- Ungodly Errors: Scholarly gripes about The Da Vinci Code's Jesus
- What Do We Mean by "First-Century Jewish Monotheism"? Society of Biblical Literature 1993 Seminar Papers, ed. E. H. Lovering (Scholars Press, 1993), pp. 348–68