Dean John W. Burgon (1813–1888)
Author of The Last Twelve Verses of Mark
About the Author
Image credit: Image from John William Burgon, late Dean of Chichester : a biography (1892) by Edward Meyrick Goulburn
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Works by Dean John W. Burgon
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Burgon, Dean John W.
- Other names
- Burgon, Dean J.
- Birthdate
- 1813-08-21
- Date of death
- 1888-08-04
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Oxford (Worcester College)
- Occupations
- Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
Gresham Professor of Divinity
Dean of Chichester
Anglican priest - Organizations
- Oxford University
Church of England - Awards and honors
- Newdigate Prize for poetry (1845)
- Short biography
- Burgon's claim to fame, among the non-theological at any rate, is his Newdigate Prize poem Petra. The long poem, in rhymed couplets, is rarely read but lives because of the oft-quoted last two lines -
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
a rose-red city half as old as time.
Despite his Middle-Eastern birth, Burgon had never seen Petra.
The poem was parodied by Peter Sellers in his Balham sketch, ending "a Rose-red city half as Golders Green." - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
- Places of residence
- Smyrna, Turkey (birth)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Chichester, Sussex, England, UK - Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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Reviews
This book is must read for those seeking to understand the error Wescott & Hort Theory of textual criticism which is the theory used for most modern day new testament translations of the bible.
The Revision Revised: A Refutation of Westcott and Hort's False Greek Text and Theory by Dean John William Burgon
Burgon, John William, The Revision Revised (Paradise, PA: Conservative Classics, 1978). 10125
"This book is the most complete and detailed attack on the Minority Text of Westcott-Hort in print. Burgon established by disputed passages the subjective method of the revisers. This book is a treasure house of arguments against liberal attacks upon the Word of God." -- GCB
"This book is the most complete and detailed attack on the Minority Text of Westcott-Hort in print. Burgon established by disputed passages the subjective method of the revisers. This book is a treasure house of arguments against liberal attacks upon the Word of God." -- GCB
The revision revised: Three articles reprinted from the Quarterly Review. I. The New Greek text. II. The new English ver by Dean John William Burgon
Classic Scholarship of "The Dean of Chichester"
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- Works
- 31
- Members
- 355
- Popularity
- #67,467
- Rating
- 4.6
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 41
