Born: Cir­ca Au­gust 1864, Ma­ry­le­bone, Lon­don, Eng­land.

A Bib­li­cal schol­ar, Bur­kitt was ed­u­cat­ed at Har­row and at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1866, MA 1889). In 1904, he be­came a Fel­low of the Bri­tish Acad­e­my. The fol­low­ing year, though a lay­man, he was ap­point­ed Nor­ris­i­an Pro­fess­or of Di­vin­i­ty at Cam­bridge, a post he held for 30 years.

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Translations

1. Receive, O Lord, in Heaven Above
2. Wake, O Wake! with Tidings Thrilling