Ernest Best (1917-2004), scholar

Ernest Best (1917-2004) was a British scholar.

Biography

Clergyman, theologian, NT scholar. Ernest Best received his PhD (1948) from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lecturer in Biblical Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews, 1963-1974. Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow, 1974-1982.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Temptation and the Passion: The Markan Soteriology (1965 Best), book

• The Letter of Paul to the Romans (1967 Best), book

• Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark (1981 Best), book

• Second Corinthians (1987 Best), book

• A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ephesians (1998 Best), book

Edited volumes

• Text and Interpretation: Studies in the New Testament Presented to Matthew Black (1979 Best, Wilson), edited volume

External links

• University of Glasgow