F. F. Bruce | |
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Born |
Elgin, Moray |
12 October 1910
Died | 11 September 1990 Buxton, Derbyshire |
(aged 79)
Occupation | Professor, writer |
Title | Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism at Manchester University |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Aberdeen, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
University of Edinburgh University of Leeds Manchester University University of Sheffield |
Frederick Fyvie Bruce FBA (12 October 1910 – 11 September 1990), usually cited as F. F. Bruce, was a Biblical scholar who supported the historical reliability of the New Testament. His first book, New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (1943), was voted by the American evangelical periodical Christianity Today in 2006 as one of the top 50 books "which had shaped evangelicals".
Bruce was born in Elgin, Moray, in Scotland, the son of a Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) preacher and educated at the University of Aberdeen, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the University of Vienna, where he studied with Paul Kretschmer, an Indo-European philologist.
After teaching Greek for several years, first at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Leeds, he became head of the Department of Biblical History and Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947. Aberdeen University bestowed an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him in 1957. In 1959 he moved to the University of Manchester where he became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. He wrote over 40 books and served as editor of The Evangelical Quarterly and the Palestine Exploration Quarterly. He retired from teaching in 1978.