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'''Larry Weir Hurtado''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE}} (1943–2019December 29, 1943 – November 25, 2019) was an American [[New Testament]] scholar, historian of [[early Christianity]], and Emeritus Professor of [[New Testament]] Language, Literature and Theology at the [[University of Edinburgh]], Scotland (Professor 1996–2011). He was the Head of the [[New College, Edinburgh|School of Divinity]] 2007–2010, and was until August 2011<ref>[http://cscoedinburgh.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/new-director/ "New Director", CSCO Announcement]</ref> Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianorigins.div.ed.ac.uk |title=Centre for the Study of Christian Origins |accessdate=November 29, 2019}}</ref> at the University of Edinburgh.
 
==Biography==
Born in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], on December 29, 1943, Hurtado was educated at [[Central Bible College]] and [[Trinity Evangelical Divinity School]].<ref name="Capes et al. 2007, p. xv">{{cite book |year=2007 |editor1-last=Capes |editor1-first=David B. |editor2-last=DeConick |editor2-first=April D. |editor2-link=April DeConick |editor3-last=Bond |editor3-first=Helen K. |editor3-link=Helen Bond |editor4-last=Miller |editor4-first=Troy |title=Israel's God and Rebecca's Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity; Essays in Honor of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F. Segal |location=Waco, Texas |publisher=Baylor University Press |page=xv |isbn=978-1-60258-175-3}}</ref> He completed his PhD in 1973 at [[Case Western Reserve University]] under the supervision of Eldon Jay Epp with the dissertation ''Codex Washingtonianus in the Gospel of Mark: Its Textual Relationships and Scribal Characteristics''.<ref name="Capes et al. 2007, p. xv"/>
 
His first academic appointment was at [[Regent College]] in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada, where he taught from 1975 to 1978. Prior to moving to Canada in 1975 he pastored a church in [[Chicago]]'s most Jewish suburb, [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]], [[Illinois]]. Thereafter he moved to the Department of Religion at the [[University of Manitoba]] in [[Winnipeg]], where he was promoted to full Professor in 1988 and taught until 1996. During his time there, he established the [[University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities]] and served as initial Director from 1990 to 1992. Shortly after his appointment at the University of Edinburgh, he established the [[Centre for the Study of Christian Origins]], which focuses on Christianity in the first three centuries.
 
He made significant advances in understanding Jewish Monotheism and early Christian devotion to Jesus. He was an authority on the Gospels (esp. [[Gospel of Mark]]), the [[Paul of Tarsus|Apostle Paul]], early [[Christology]], the Jewish background of the [[New Testament]], and New Testament [[textual criticism]]. He was perhaps most well known for his studies on the early emergence of a devotion to Jesus expressed in beliefs about Jesus sharing God's glory, and in a "devotional pattern" in which Jesus features prominently. Hurtado argued that this Jesus-devotion comprises a novel "mutation" in ancient Jewish monotheistic practice. In his later publications, he also urged greater awareness of the historical value of earliest Christian manuscripts as key physical artifactsartefacts of early Christianity, drawing attention to such phenomena as the [[nomina sacra]] (distinctive abbreviated forms of certain Greek words, e.g., ''Theos, Iesous, Kyrios, Christos''), the Christian preference for the codex bookformbook form, and a number of other features.<ref>[http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/larryhurtado Staff Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510023101/http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/larryhurtado |date=May 10, 2009 }}</ref>
 
He was elected a member of the [[Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas]] in 1984, and received the [[Rh Institute]] Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in the Humanities in 1986. He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 2008, and President of the [[British New Testament Society]] from 2009 to 2012. He won research grants from the [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada]], the [[British Academy]], and the [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] (UK). He gave invited lectures in many universities in the UK and other countries, and was a Visiting Fellow at [[Macquarie University]] in Australia in 2005.
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