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Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (1828–89), Bp. of Durham from 1879. He held high academic posts at Cambridge and from 1870 to 1880 he was a member of the Company of Revisers of the NT. His critical work on the NT and the Fathers was marked by wide erudition, lucid presentation, freedom from technicalities, and avoidance of sectional controversy. It included commentaries on St Paul's Epistles, an edition of Clement of Rome (1869), and his famous Ignatius (1885), which disposed of W. Cureton's suggestion that only the three Epistles in the Syriac recension were genuine.

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Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (1828–89) English NT scholar. After a long academic life at Cambridge, he became bishop of Durham in 1879. His main work was on the epistles of Paul and the Apostolic Fathers, and he defended the trustworthiness of Acts against the speculations of the Tübingen school. On the origin of the Christian ministry he maintained that government of a diocese by single bishops emerged from a more primitive system of a college of presbyters.

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W. R. F. BROWNING. "Lightfoot, Joseph Barber." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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