William Horbury (born 1942) is a

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priest and former Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at

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Academic career

William Horbury graduated BA from Oriel College, Oxford in 1964 and entered

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for ordination training in the same year. He was ordained deacon in 1969 and priest in 1970, having become a fellow of

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in 1968. He completed his Cambridge PhD thesis, "A Critical Examination of the Toledoth Jeshu" in 1971. From 1972 to 1978 he served as Rector of

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and

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in the Diocese of Ely. In 1978 he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and is now a life fellow. He became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge in 1984 and Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies in 1998. He is now retired. He also served as honorary priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge from 1990 to 2014. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1997.

Selected publications

* ''Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament: Studies Presented to G. M. Styler by the Cambridge New Testament Seminar'' (Cambridge University Press, 1981) (edited, with Brian McNeil) * ''Templum Amicitiae: Essays on the Second Temple Presented to Ernst Bammel'' (JSOT press, 1991) (edited) * ''Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992) (coauthored with D. E. Noy) * ''Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ'' (SCM, 1998) * ''Jews and Christians in Contact and Controversy'' (T. & T. Clark, 1998) (collected essays) * ''Messianism among Jews and Christians'' (Continuum, 2003) * ''Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study'' (Mohr Siebeck, 2006)

References

Living people Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1942 births 20th-century English Anglican priests {{edu-bio-stub