John R Bartlett
John R. Bartlett was educated at Bury Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and held a number of positions at Trinity College, Dublin throughout his teaching career. He was Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College from 1989 until his retirement in 2001. He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 2002, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005. He worked as a site supervisor on K. M. Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem in 1962, on C. M. Bennett's...See more
John R. Bartlett was educated at Bury Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and held a number of positions at Trinity College, Dublin throughout his teaching career. He was Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College from 1989 until his retirement in 2001. He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 2002, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005. He worked as a site supervisor on K. M. Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem in 1962, on C. M. Bennett's excavations in Buseirah, Jordan in 1973 and 1974, and as a member of J. M. Miller's survey of the Kerak Plateau, Jordan in 1979 and 1982. Bartlett's academic publications have mostly been concerned with the history and geography of kingdoms in Jordan in biblical times, and with the Maccabaean period, with particular interest in the identification of biblical sites. See less
