Morna Dorothy Hooker is a British

United Kingdom

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 theologian

Theology

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 and New Testament

New Testament

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 scholar.

She was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

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 within the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 from 1976 to 1998, becoming the first woman to hold the Cambridge degree of D.D.

Doctor of Divinity

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, and as of 1998 is Professor Emerita. She remains a Fellow of Robinson College

Robinson College, Cambridge

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, having joined the fellowship as a founding Fellow in 1977, and is also a Fellow of King's College London and an honorary Fellow of Linacre College

Linacre College, Oxford

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, Oxford. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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 and the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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. Professor Hooker was the first woman to have the honour of being elected President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international society of New Testament scholars, and in 2004 was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy

British Academy

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.

A Methodist local preacher

Methodist local preacher

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, she is the widow of fellow theologian and Methodist

Methodism

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 minister

Minister of religion

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 the Rev. David Stacey, and is sometimes styled Morna Hooker-Stacey.

Books

Her books, however, are published under the name Morna Hooker. They include:

• Jesus and the Servant: The Influence of the Servant Concept of Deutero-Isaiah in the New Testament (1959)
• The Son of Man in Mark (1973)
• What about the New Testament? (jt. ed. 1975)
• Interchange and atonement (1978)
• Studying the New Testament (1979)
• Pauline Pieces/A Preface to Paul (1980)
• Paul and Paulinism (jt. ed. 1982)
• Trial and tribulation in Mark XIII (1983)
• The Message of Mark (1983)
• Continuity and Discontinuity: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Setting (1986)
• From Adam to Christ: Essays on St Paul (1990)
• The Gospel according to St Mark (1993)
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: New Testament Interpretations of the Death of Christ (1994)
• The Signs of a Prophet: The prophetic actions of Jesus (1997)
• Beginnings: Keys that open the Gospels (1997)
• Endings: Invitations to discipleship (2003)
• Paul: A short introduction (2003)
• Not in Word Alone (ed. 2003)
• Paul: A beginner's Guide" (2008)