Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (born April 13, 1828 in Liverpool , † December 12, 1889 in Bournemouth ) was a British theologian and Anglican Bishop of Durham .

Lightfoot was a member of Trinity College at Cambridge University . In 1861 he became Hulsean professor of divinity and in 1875 Lady Margaret professor at Cambridge.

In 1879 he became bishop of Durham. His successor was Brooke Foss Westcott , with whom he developed new methods of biblical research.

Works (selection)

• The Apostolic Fathers / S. Clement of Rome / A revised text with Introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations by Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1973.
• The Apostolic Fathers: Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp: revised text with introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations. / Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Grand Rapids, Mich .: Baker Book House, 1981.
• St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians: a revised text with introduction, notes and dissertations / Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Grand Rapids, Mich .: Zondervan Pub. House, 1953.
• Notes on the epistles of St Paul (I and II Thessalonians, I Corinthians 1 - 7, Romans 1 - 7, Ephesians 1: 1 - 14) / JB Lightfoot. Repr. From the 1885 ed. Grand Rapids, Mich .: Zondervan, 1957.
• Sermons preached in St. Paul's Cathedral. London; New York: Macmillan, 1891.
• The apostolic fathers: Greek texts and English translation of their writings. / Holmes Michael William .; Joseph Barber Lightfoot; JR Harmer. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich .: Baker Book House, 1992. 3rd. ed. 2007.
• Essays on the work entitled Supernatural religion. London: Macmillan, 1889.

literature

• George Rodney Eden (Ed.): Lightfoot of Durham: memories and appreciations . 1st ed., Repr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1932.
• Bruce N. Kaye: Lightfoot and Baur on Early Christianity . Novum Testamentum 26 (1984) 193-224.
• Geoffrey R. Treloar: Lightfoot the Historian: The Nature and Role of History in the Life and Thought of JB Lightfoot (1828-1889) as Churchman and Scholar . Tübingen: Mohr, 1998. ISBN 316146866X .

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles Baring	Bishop of Durham 1879–1889	Brooke Foss Westcott