Larry Hurtado was the head of the School of Divinity from 2007 to 2010, and was until August 2011 Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh.
10 Facts About Larry Hurtado
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Larry Hurtado made significant advances in understanding Jewish monotheism and early Christian devotion to Jesus.
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Larry Hurtado was an authority on the Gospels, the Apostle Paul, early Christology, the Jewish background of the New Testament, and textual criticism of the New Testament.
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Larry Hurtado was perhaps most well known for his studies on the early emergence of a devotion to Jesus expressed in beliefs about Jesus sharing God's glory, and in a "devotional pattern" in which Jesus features prominently.
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Larry Hurtado argued that this Jesus-devotion comprises a novel "mutation" in ancient Jewish monotheistic practice.
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Larry Hurtado was elected a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 1984, and received the Rh Institute Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in the Humanities in 1986.
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Larry Hurtado was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008, and President of the British New Testament Society from 2009 to 2012.
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Larry Hurtado won research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Larry Hurtado gave invited lectures in many universities in the UK and other countries, and was a visiting fellow at Macquarie University in Australia in 2005.
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The School of Divinity announced that Larry Hurtado had died of cancer in his sleep on November 25,2019.