Barnabas Lindars

Barnabas Lindars (born Frederick Chevallier Lindars; 11 June 1923 – 21 October 1991) was an English New Testament scholar.

Life

Lindars was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1949. After teaching at the University of Cambridge (where he was Dean of Jesus College), Lindars served as Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester from 1978 to 1990.

In 1988, It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture: Essays in Honour of Barnabas Lindars, SSF was published. It included contributions from C. K. Barrett, Richard Bauckham, G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, R. E. Clements, and Morna D. Hooker.

Selected works

Judges 1-5 : A New Translation and Commentary (contribution), ed. by A. D. H. Mayes. Edinburgh, Scotland : T&T Clark, 1995 John. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990 The History of Christian Theology : Volume 2 : The Study and Use of the Bible, ed. by Paul Avis; John Rogerson, Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans, 1988 The Gospel of John (New Century Bible Commentary). London, England: Marshall, Morgan & Scott; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974. Peter R. Ackroyd and Barnabas Lindars (eds.), Words dans Meanings / Essays Presented to David Winton Thomas on his Retirement From the Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, 1968. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1968