Herbert George Wood (2 September 1879 – 9 March 1963), best known as H. G. Wood was a British theologian and academic. He was a lecturer in the New Testament from 1910 to 1940 at Woodbrooke College. At the University of Birmingham, he was the first Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology, holding the chair from 1940 to 1946, and was also Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1943 to 1946.[1][2]

He gave the 1933 Hulsean Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was the first layman and the first Quaker to do so.[2] He was President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 1957.[1]

Wood argued for the historicity of Jesus, he was an opponent of the Christ myth theory.[3]

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  1. ^ a b "Dr. H. G. Wood". The Times. No. 55646. 11 March 1963. p. 12.
  2. ^ a b Kennedy, Thomas C. (2004). "Wood, Herbert George (1879–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. ^ Franke, Damon. (2008). Modernist heresies: British literary history, 1883-1924. Ohio State University Press. p. 64
  4. ^ Pauck, W. (1935). Christianity and the Nature of History By H. G. Wood. Church History 4 (3): 239-240.

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