Profile

David Parker is Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology and a Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing. He read Theology at St. Andrews, specialising in New Testament and Ecclesiastical History. From there he went to Cambridge, where he did a postgraduate degree and trained for the Anglican priesthood. After eight years in parochial ministry in North London and Oxfordshire, he moved to Birmingham in 1985, teaching at Queen’s College. Birmingham until 1993, when he joined the department. He has a doctorate from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

He has been Executive Editor of the International Greek New Testament Project since 1987. This project is currently making a critical edition of the Gosel of John in the series Novum Testamentu Graece. Editio critica maior, in partnership with the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, Münster, Germany. Other current research projects are an edition of the Gospel of John in Latin (with Dr Philip Burton) and an online edition of the ancient manuscript of the Greek Bible Codex Sinaiticus. He is currently writing a book on this topic. He also acts as an advisor to the editors of the Oxyrhynchus papyri. He is editor of the series Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature (published by Gorgias Press) and Arbeiten zur neutestamentliche Textforschung (published by De Gruyter)

Research Interests

• New Testament textual criticism
• Greek and Latin palaeography

Postgraduate Supervision

• NT manuscripts
• Textual criticism of the New Testament
• Versions and transmission of the New Testament text
• Textual theory

Select Publications

www.iohannes.com (3 online editions of the Gospel of John in Greek and Latin

An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts, Cambridge University Press, 2008

The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition, Stuttgart, German Bible Society, 2007

“Textual Criticism and Theology”, Expository Times 118 (2007), 583-589