New Horizons in Biblical Studies

Bruce's inaugural lecture as Professor of Biblical History and Literature at the University of Sheffield, delivered on 27 February 1957 and published by the University as an 18-page pamphlet. Sheffield, he notes, was the first British university to found a chair of biblical studies in its Faculty of Arts rather than in divinity, and he argues that biblical history and literature form a coherent discipline in their own right. He then surveys the fields opening before it in the 1950s, among them the bearing of Near Eastern discoveries on the Old Testament and C. H. Dodd's account of the Old Testament sub-structure of New Testament theology.