Timothy Barnes (classicist)

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Timothy Barnes

DPhil)
OccupationHistorian
EmployerUniversity of Edinburgh
AwardsConington Prize, Philip Schaff Prize

Timothy David Barnes FBA FRSC (born 13 March 1942) is a British classicist.

Biography

Barnes was born in

Conington prize
.

On receiving his doctorate he was immediately appointed

University of Trinity College. He delivered the Townsend Lectures at Cornell University
in 1994.

In 1982 he was awarded both the

.

In December 2007, he officially retired from the University of Toronto, and returned to the United Kingdom. He is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity,[2] working with the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins.[3]

Most of Barnes's work has concerned the position of

Church
and the working in practice of the latter. Many of his articles have challenged traditionally held chronologies and explored the implications of fresh dating.

Selected works

Notes

  1. ^ ASCH Schaff Prize Archived 7 May 2012 at archive.today. American Society of Church History. Accessed 20 September 2008.
  2. ^ Academic Staff in the School of Divinity Archived 8 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. University of Edinburgh, 2009. Accessed 27 September 2009.
  3. ^ Academic Staff Principally Involved with the CSCO Archived 11 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine. University of Edinburgh, 2009. Accessed 27 September 2009.

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