Joseph Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( born April 13, 1828 in Liverpool, † December 12, 1889 in Bournemouth ) was a British theologian and Anglican Bishop of Durham.

Lightfoot was a member of Trinity College, Cambridge University. In 1861 he became professor of divinity Hulsean and 1875 Lady Margaret professor at Cambridge.

In 1879 he became bishop in Durham. Brooke Foss Westcott His friend, with whom he developed new methods of biblical scholarship, became his successor.

Works (selection)

• The Apostolic Fathers / S. Clement of Rome / A revised text with Introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations by Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1973.
• The Apostolic Fathers: Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp and: revised text with introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations. / Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Grand Rapids, Mich.:. Baker Book House, 1981.
• St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians: a revised text with introduction, notes and dissertations / Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Grand Rapids, Mich.:. Zondervan Pub. House, 1953.
• Notes on the epistles of St Paul ( I and II Thessalonians, I Corinthians 1-7, Romans 1-7, Ephesians 1:1 - 14) / JB Lightfoot. Repr from the 1885 ed Grand Rapids, Mich.:. Zondervan, 1957.
• Sermons preached in St. Paul's Cathedral. London; New York: Macmillan, 1891.
• The apostolic fathers: Greek texts and English translation of Their writings. / Michael William Holmes. ; Joseph Barber Lightfoot; J R Harmer. 2nd ed Grand Rapids, Mich.:. Baker Book House, 1992 3rd. . ed in 2007.
• Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural religion. London: Macmillan, 1889.