Bishop Lightfoot
Overview
This sketch of Bishop Lightfoot was originally published in the Quarterly Review in January 1893. Joseph Lightfoot was a theologian, biblical scholar, and friend of B. F. Westcott, who preceded him in the office of Bishop of Durham. Westcott writes a prefatory note to this remembrance of Lightfoot’s life and work that sheds light on both their relationship and Lightfoot’s legacy.
- Title: Bishop Lightfoot
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1894
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber), 1828-1889
- Resource ID: LLS:BISHOPLIGHTFOOT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:32:07Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.