Morna Hooker

Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 19 May 1931) is a British theologian and New Testament scholar.

[1] She went to Bristol University where she graduated with first class honours in theology, and then earned her MA.

[5] Hooker was the first woman to be elected President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international society of New Testament scholars (1988).

[6] Her scholarly interests lie in early Christian thought in the setting of Jewish biblical inheritance.

[3] In 2004 she was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy.