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Robert Lightfoot (priest)

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as Fellow, Tutor and Dean of Divinity. He was appointed as Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in 1934, and was then less involved in college affairs: up until then he had undertaken many administrative tasks to make up for the lesser teaching burden that he had compared to
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other colleagues at New College. He resigned his professorship in 1949; after he ceased to be a Fellow of New College in 1950, he was appointed to an Extraordinary Fellowship at Lincoln College.
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He was regarded as a "lucid and accurate" lecturer. He concentrated his work on the four
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After briefly returning to Wells in 1919, he was appointed as chaplain and
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Dean Ireland's Professors of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
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Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
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in 1909. However, in 1912, he was offered a position at
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FBA
Anglican
Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
University of Oxford
Prideaux Lightfoot
Archdeacon of Oakham
Exeter College, Oxford
Uppingham School
Eton College
Worcester College, Oxford
curate
Haslemere
Wells Theological College
Edward Stuart Talbot
Bishop of Winchester
Fellow
Lincoln College, Oxford
New College
gospels
Gospel of Mark
St John's Gospel: A Commentary
C F Evans
Bampton Lectures
the Journal of Theological Studies
Godfrey Rolles Driver




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