Who is: Morna Hooker

I got to know about Morna Hooker during my last church camp in 2006 from Rev Dr Ezra Kok and I have since been so impressed by her, though I have not managed to get any of her books to read. I do not see them in the bookshops here.

Her accomplisments and accolades:

• A British theologian
• A New Testament Scholar
• The Lady Margeret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (1976-98)
• The first woman to hold the Cambridge degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D)
• The Lady Margaret’s Professor Emerita of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (2005-)
• Fellow of Robinson College
• Honorary fellow of Linacre College, Oxford
• The first woman to hold the honour of President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international society of New Testament scholars
• Awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy (2004)
• A Methodist local preacher

Her books include:

• Fire on the earth (1965)
• To know Christ and to make him known: 4 Bible studies (1967)
• Son of Man in Mark (1973)
• What about the New Testament (1975)
• Interchange and atonement (1978)
• Studying the New Testament (1979)
• A preface to Paul (1980)
• Trial and tribulation in Mark XIII (1983)
• Continuity and Discontinuity: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Setting (1986)
• From Adam to Christ: Essays on St Paul (1990)
• St Mark (1991)
• The Gospel according to St Mark (1993)
• Beginnings: Keys that open the gospels (1997)
• Endings: Invitations to discipleship (2003)
• The signs of a prophet: The prophetic actions of Jesus
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: New Testament Interpretations of the Death of Christ
• Paul: A short introduction (2003)

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Picture from Anderson University