Francis Crawford Burkitt

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Francis Crawford Burkitt (September 3, 1864-1935) was a British theologian and scholar. He was Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, from 1905 until shortly before his death.

He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics.

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The Book of Rules of Tyconius (1894)
The four Gospels in Syriac, transcribed from the Sinaitic palimpsest (1894) with Robert L. Bensly and J. Rendel Harris, introduction by Agnes Smith Lewis (1894)
The New Testament in Greek (1896), editor of second edition
The Old Latin and the Itala (1896)
Fragments of the Books of Kings according to the Translation of Aquila (1897)
Two Lectures on the Gospels (1901)
Saint Ephraim's Quotations From The Gospel (1901)
Criticism of the New Testament: St. Margaret's Lectures (1902) with Frederick Kenyon, A. C. Headlam and others
Early Eastern Christianity: Saint Margaret's Lectures on the Syriac Speaking Church (1904)
Evangelion da-mepharreshe: The Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest. I. Text; II: Introduction and Notes (1904)
The Gospel History and its Transmission (1907)
Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (1914) Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1913
The Religion of the Manichees (1925) Donnellan Lectures 1924
Palestine in General History (1929) Schweich Lectures 1926, with Theodore H. Robinson, J. W. Hunkin
Christian Worship (1930)
The Church of Today Part 2 (1930) with P. Gardner-Smith and C. E. Raven, The Christian Religion and Its Origin and Progress, Volume 3
Jesus Christ: An Historical Outline (1932)
Church and Gnosis : a Study of Christian Thought and Speculation in the Second Century (1932)
Franciscan Essays II (1932) with H. E. Goad and A. G. Little
Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire (2002)
Egyptian Gnostic Works (2005)
Christian Beginnings