Education
Tuckett finished the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos (with first class honours in both parts 1 and 2) at Queens" College, Cambridge, and then took first class honours in both parts of the Cambridge Theology Tripos.
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Christopher Tuckett
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Career
He is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He served for two years as assistant curate at the Priory Church in Lancaster, followed by two years as Chaplain and Bye-Fellow back at Queens". Here he was awarded his doctoral degree for his dissertation "The Revival of the Griesbach Hypothesis: Analysis and Appraisal".
Academic career He was then lecturer in New Testament studies at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1979 until 1991 and Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis until 1996.
At Manchester, Tuckett served as Dean of the Faculty and Head of the newly formed Department of Religions and Theology. From Manchester, he moved to the University of Oxford where he was lecturer in New Testament Studies until 2001 before being appointed Professor of New Testament Studies.
Tuckett was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), from 2013 to 2014. 2011: New Studies in the Synoptic Problem, Oxford Conference, April 2008: Essays in Honour of.
