The Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis is a professorship or chair in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, England. Formerly in the Faculty of Theology, the chair resides now in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. The chair was established in 1904 as one of two chairs endowed by Enriqueta Rylands in the former Faculty of Theology which was founded the same year. The current holder of the chair is Professor Peter Oakes, who was appointed in 2020.
Former holders
Former holders:
- Arthur Peake, 1904–1929
- C. H. Dodd, 1930–1935
- Thomas Walter Manson, 1936–1958
- F. F. Bruce, 1959–1978
- Barnabas Lindars, 1978–1990
- Christopher M. Tuckett, 1991–1996
- George J. Brooke, 1997–2016
References
- *Farnie, D. A. (1989). "Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, 1843–1908, Founder of the John Rylands Library". Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 71 (2): 3–38. doi:10.7227/BJRL.71.2.1.; p. 35
- "Prof Peter Oakes | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- "Peter Oakes appointed to Rylands Chair". Peter Oakes appointed to Rylands Chair. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- Biblical Scholarship in the Twentieth Century: The Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, 1904–2004, Timothy T. Larsen, ed. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 86:3 (Autumn 2004)