- Burnett Hillman Streeter
Burnett Hillman Streeter (17 November 1874,
London ndash10 September 1937,Basel ) was a British biblical scholar.He was educated at Queen’s College,
University of Oxford . Streeter was ordained in 1899 and was a member of the Archbishop’s Commission on Doctrine in theChurch of England (from 1922 to 1937). He wrote a dozen volumes in the fields ofphilosophy of religion , comparative religion, andNew Testament textual studies.The most important work of Streeter was "The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins" (1924), in which he proposed a “four document hypothesis” (instead “
two-source hypothesis ”) as a new solution to thesynoptic problem (pp. 223-270). In this work he also developed the theory of “local texts” in the manuscript transmission of theNew Testament (pp. 27-50). He found a new textual family:Caesarean text-type . He remarked a close textual relationhip betweenCodex Sinaiticus andVulgate ofJerome .Works
* "A Statement of Christian Belief in Terms of Modern Thought", (1912).
* "The Sadhu: A Study in Mysticism and Practical Religion", (1921).
* "The Four Gospels, a Study of Origins treating of the Manuscript Tradition, Sources, Authourship, & Dates", (1924).
* "Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion", (1926).
* "Primitive Church Studied with Special Reference to the Origins of the Christian Ministry", (1929).
* "The Chained Library", (1931).
* "The Buddha and the Christ", (Bampton Lectures, 1932).
* "Reality A New Correlation Of Science And Religion", (1935).Further readings
* John M. Court, "Burnett Hillman Streeter", (17th Novemer 1874 - 10th September 1937), in: ExpT 118.2006, Nr.1, S. 19-25.
External links
* [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s4/streeter_b_h.shtml Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon]
* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/568744/Burnett-Hillman-Streeter Encyclopedia Britannica]
* [http://www.katapi.org.uk/4Gospels/Contents.htm Streeter, The Four Gospels]
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