George John Brooke is an English academic, the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis Emeritus at the University of Manchester.
He studied Theology at St Peter's College, Oxford (1970–1973); he was awarded a B.A.
in 1973 and was awarded both the Junior and Senior Pusey and Ellington Prizes for Biblical Hebrew.
For 1977-1978 he was Junior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.
In 1998 he became the seventh Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, a post he held until the end of January 2016.