Revd Professor John Barton

Senior Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

John.barton@oriel.ox.ac.uk

About

John Barton is Emeritus Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991-2014, and Fellow of Oriel College; previously Reader in Biblical Studies and Fellow of St Cross College 1974-1991. He is Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall and Emeritus Fellow of Oriel and St Cross Colleges. He is also Fellow of the British Academy and of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Honorary Dr. theol. of University of Bonn.

Research Interests

The Bible, especially the Old Testament. The biblical canon, ethics in the Bible, the Hebrew prophets, biblical interpretation.

Selected Publications

A History of the Bible: The Book and its Faiths (Allen Lane 2019)

Ethics in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Nature of Biblical Criticism (Westminster John Knox, 2007)

The Spirit and the Letter: Essays on the Biblical Canon (SPCK 1997)

Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Propechy in Israel after the Exile (Darton, Lomgman & Todd, 1988)

Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1984)