Morna Hooker

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Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 1931) is a British theologian and New Testament scholar.

She was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity within the University of Cambridge from 1976 to 1998, becoming the first woman to hold the Cambridge degree of D.D., and as of 2005 is Professor Emerita. She remains a fellow of Robinson College, having first joined the fellowship in 1977, and is also an honorary fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Professor Hooker was the first British woman to hold the honour of President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international society of New Testament scholars, and in 2004 was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy.

A Methodist local preacher, she is the widow of fellow theologian and Methodist minister the Rev. David Stacey, and is sometimes styled Morna Hooker-Stacey.

[edit] Books

Her books, however, are published under the name Morna Hooker. They include:

• Fire on the earth (1965)
• To know Christ and to make him known: 4 Bible studies (1967)
• Son of Man in Mark (1973)
• What about the New Testament (1975)
• Interchange and atonement (1978)
• Studying the New Testament (1979)
• A preface to Paul (1980)
• Trial and tribulation in Mark XIII (1983)
• Continuity and Discontinuity: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Setting (1986)
• From Adam to Christ: Essays on St Paul (1990)
• St Mark (1991)
• The Gospel according to St Mark (1993)
• Beginnings: Keys that open the gospels (1997)
• Endings: Invitations to discipleship (2003)
• The signs of a prophet: The prophetic actions of Jesus
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: New Testament Interpretations of the Death of Christ
• Paul: A short introduction (2003)