The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology Lightfoot Hort Meyer Volume 3

The Journal of Classical and Sacred PhilologyAuthor(s): Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Fenton John Anthony Hort, John Eyton Bickersteth Meyer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108053532, 978-1108053532\nSynopsis\nContemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot [tel], Fenton John Anthony Hort [tel], and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor [tel] all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became President of St John's, while Lightfoot and Hort - members, along with Brooke Foss Westcott [tel] of the 'Cambridge triumvirate' - were eventually appointed respectively Bishop of Durham and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. This short-lived triannual journal, which they founded and edited from 1854 to 1859, is interesting both for its combination of classical and patristic material, illuminating the close relationship between theology and cla.