Kirsopp Lake

Kirsopp Lake was a New Testament scholar and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He had an uncommon breadth of interests, publishing definitive monographs in New Testament textual criticism, Greek palaeography, theology, and archaeology. He is probably best known for the massive fivevolume work The Beginnings of Christianityan edition, translation, commentary, and study of the Acts of Apostlesthat he conceived and edited with F. J. FoakesJackson.

Kirsopp Lake was born in Southampton, England, onApril 1872, the elder of two surviving children of George Anthony Kirsopp Lake, a physician, and Isabel Oke Clark. His father came from a family of Scottish origin and Kirsopp was the family name of the boys paternal grandmother. He was educated at St Pauls School, London and then went up to Lincoln College, Oxford, matriculating in 1891. He attended as an Exhibitioner and was the Skinners Companys Scholar in 1893, finally graduating with a second class in theology. He also attended Cuddesdon Theological College in 1895. He originally had intended to read law and to pursue a career in politics. However, an overdose of exercise, too soon after influenza, affected his heart and he was told by doctors that law and politics were out of the question. According to his son, he was delicate and the church seemed to give the opportunity for a living and for some influence over the society that interested him.

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