The Rev Prof John Barton

Career: ordained priest C of E 1973; Univ of Oxford: jr res fell Merton Coll 1973-74, jr chaplain Merton Coll 1973-76, univ lectr in theology 1974-89, reader in Biblical studies 1989-91, Oriel & Laing prof of the interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991-, fell St Cross Coll 1974-91 (emeritus fell 1991-), fell Oriel Coll 1991-; canon theologian Winchester Cathedral 1991-2003; Bampton lectr Oxford 1988, Hulsean lectr Cambridge 1990; Hon Dr Theol Univ of Bonn 1998; FBA 2007, foreign memb Norwiegan Acad of Arts and Sciences 2008

Books and Publications: Amos's Oracles Against the Nations (1980), Reading the Old Testament - Method in Biblical Study (1984), Oracles of God - Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (1986), People of the Book? The Authority of the Bible in Christianity (Bampton lectures, 1988), Love Unknown - Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus (1990), What is the Bible? (1991), Isaiah 1-39 (1995), The Spirit and the Letter: Studies in the Biblical Canon (1997), Making the Christian Bible (1997), Ethics and the Old Testament (1998), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (1998), The Oxford Bible Commentary (jt ed, 2001), The Biblical World (2002), Understanding Old Testament Ethics (2003), The Original Story: God, Israel and the World (2004), Living Belief: Being Christian, Being Human (2005), The Nature of Biblical Criticism (2007), The Old Testament: Canon, Literature, Theology (2007), The Theology of the Book of Amos (2012)