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English theologian and biblical scholar (1864–1935)
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. 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.
Personal life
Burkitt married Amy Persis in 1888. Together, they had one son, Miles Crawford Burkitt, who went on to become an archaeologist and academic.
Burkitt died suddenly at his home on West Road, Cambridge on 11 May 1935, aged 70.
Honours
The Burkitt Medal, awarded by the British Academy, is named in his honour.
Burkitt, Francis C. (1904). Early Eastern Christianity: Saint Margaret's Lectures on the Syriac Speaking Church 1904. London: John Murray. OCLC941047442.
Burkitt, Francis C. (1914). Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1913. London: The British Academy. OCLC458985970.
Burkitt, Francis C. (1924). Christian Beginnings: Three Lectures. London: University of London Press. OCLC253528260.
Burkitt, Francis C. (1925). The Religion of the Manichees: Donnellan Lectures 1924. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. OCLC79046876.
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. OCLC1014109.
Burkitt, Francis C.; Gardner-Smith, P.; Raven, Charles E. (1930). The Christian Religion and Its Origin and Progress, Volume 3 :The Church of Today. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. OCLC912955287.
Burkitt, Francis C. (1932). Jesus Christ: An Historical Outline. London: Blackie & Son. OCLC472794866.
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. OCLC640005752.
Burkitt, Francis C.; Goad, Harold E.; Little, A. G. (1932). Franciscan Essays II. British Society of Franciscan Studies, Extra series. Manchester: The University Press. OCLC1096531998.
Edited by
Burkitt, Francis C., ed. (1896). The New Testament in Greek (2nd ed.).
Burkitt, Francis C. (October 1929). "A Further Note on the Pahlavi Crosses". The Journal of Theological Studies. 31 (121): 47–48.
Burkitt, Francis C. (April 1930). "The Didascalia". The Journal of Theological Studies. 31 (123): 258–265.
Burkitt, Francis C. (October 1934). "The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri". The Journal of Theological Studies. 34 (136): 363–368.
Burkitt, Francis C. (July 1935). "The Dura Fragment of Tatian". The Journal of Theological Studies. 36 (143): 255–259.
References
^Chapman, Mark D. (2001). The Coming Crisis: The Impact of Eschatology on Theology in Edwardian England. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press. p. 81. ISBN978-1-84127-185-9.
^Soskice, Janet (2010) Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels. London: Vintage, pp. 146–87.
^His account is quoted at length in Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament, ed. William Horbury and Brian McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge UP), pp. xiii–xv.