BURKITT, FRANCIS CRAWFORD. - Anglican critic and exegete of the New Testament, b. in London on 3 Sept. 1864, from 1905 holder of the Norris chair at the University of Cambridge, d. on 11 May 1935. He was a contributor to the Journal of Theological Studies.

Principal works: The Book of Rules of Tyconius (Texts and Studies, 3, 1), Cambridge 1894; The Old Latin and the Itala (Texts and Studies, 2, 4), ibid. 1896; Early Christianity outside the Roman Empire, ibid. 1899; The Gospel Quotations of S. Ephraim (Texts and Studies, 7, 2), ibid. 1901; Evangelion da Mepharresche, ibid. 1904; The Gospel History and its Transmission (ibid. 1906; 3rd ed. 1920; Italian trans.); Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Schweich Lectures), London 1914; S. Ephraims Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion and Bardaisan (with Mitchell), 2 vols., Cambridge 1912 and 1921; Christian Beginnings, ibid. 1923; The Religion of the Manichees, ibid. 1925; Church and Gnosis, ibid. 1932.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Sauter, Connolly, Streeter etc., Journal of Theological Studies, 1935, p. 225 ff.

Erik Peterson

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