Barnabas Lindars

The Reverend Barnabas Lindars SSF
Born	Frederick Chevallier Lindars (1923-06-11)11 June 1923
Died	21 October 1991(1991-10-21) (aged 68)
Nationality	English
Ecclesiastical career
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1949 (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	St. John's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies
Sub-discipline	New Testament studies
Institutions	Jesus College, Cambridge University of Manchester
Doctoral students	D. A. Carson
Influenced	Mehmet Paçacı D. A. Carson

Barnabas Lindars SSF (born Frederick Chevallier Lindars; 11 June 1923 – 21 October 1991) was an English New Testament scholar. Lindars was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1949. After teaching at the University of Cambridge (where he was Dean of Jesus College), Lindars served as Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester from 1978 to 1990.

In 1988, It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture: Essays in Honour of Barnabas Lindars, SSF was published. It included contributions from C. K. Barrett, Richard Bauckham, G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, R. E. Clements, and Morna D. Hooker.

Selected works

• Judges 1-5 : a new translation and commentary (contribution), ed. by A.D.H. Mayes. Edinburgh : T&T Clark, 1995
• The History of Christian Theology : Volume 2 : The Study and Use of the Bible, ed. by Paul Avis ; John Rogerson, Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans, 1988
• The Gospel of John New Century Bible Commentary. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974. ISBN 0-8028-1864-1
• Peter R. Ackroyd and Barnabas Lindars (Ed.), Words dans Meanings / Essays presented to David Winton Thomas on his retirement frome the Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, 1968. Cambridge University Press, 1968
• New Testament Apologetic: The Doctrinal Significance of the Old Testament Quotations. London : SCM Press Ltd, 1961