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'''Francis Crawford Burkitt''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (3 September 1864 – 1935) was an English theologian. As [[Norris Professor of Divinity]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1905 until shortly before his death, Burkitt was a sturdy critic of the notion of a distinct "[[Caesarean text-type|Caesarean Text]]" of the [[New Testament]] put forward by [[B. H. Streeter]] and others.

==Education and career==
[[image:TextsNT.jpg|thumb|The inter-relationship between significant ancient manuscripts according to Burkitt]]
Burkitt was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he read mathematics, graduating [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] as 28th [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Wrangler]] in 1886, and gained [[first-class honours]] in the theological [[tripos]] in 1888. Received MA in 1890, and Bachelor of Divinity and Doctorate in Divinity in 1915. Lecturer in Palaeography in 1903-1905, Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge 1905-1936 Chief promoter of and author of the Preface for the English translation of [[Albert Schweitzer]]'s book, ''[[The Quest of the Historical Jesus]]'', by W. Montgomery.

Burkitt accompanied [[Robert Lubbock Bensly|Robert Bensly]], [[J. Rendel Harris|James Rendel Harris]], and sisters [[Agnes and Margaret Smith]] on the 1893 expedition to [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]] in [[Egypt]] to examine a [[Syriac language|Syriac]] [[palimpsest]] of the [[Gospels]] discovered there the previous year by the sisters. Burkitt played an important role in deciphering the text and in subsequent publication of the team's findings.

Burkitt was a noted figure at Cambridge in 1912–1935 for his chairmanship of the Cambridge New Testament Seminar, attended by other prominent theologians, including [[Robert Newton Flew]], who left an account of it in an obituary for Burkitt in the ''Proceedings of the British Academy''. He was also president of the Cambridge Philological Society from 1904 to 1905.

The [[Burkitt Medal]], awarded by the British Academy, is named in his honour.

==Works==
[[image:Jewish_and_Christian_apocalypses.jpg|thumb|Descriptions of end-time beliefs in Judaism and Christianity.<br>([[Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology|The Schweich Lectures (1913)]].]]

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==External links==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205235842/http://www.metamind.net/burkittbio.html Biographical page]

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