Hemer, Colin J. (Personal Name)

nuc88-22477: His The letters to the seven ... 1986 (hdg. on ViU rept.: Hemer, Colin J.; usage: Colin J. Hemer)

His The book of Acts in the setting of Hellenistic history, 1990: t.p. (Colin J. Hemer) fwd. (d. 6/1987)

A study of the letters to the seven churches of Asia with special reference to their local background, 1969: title page (Colin John Hemer)

Seven Churches Network , via WWW, March 30, 2020 (Colin Hemer; Colin J. Hemer was one of the preeminent scholars on the Seven Churches, and many of his articles on the Biblical sites in Turkey can be found in such references works as the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised Edition, and the New Bible Dictionary; Hemer's premature death in 1987 was a lost for both New Testament and Anatolian scholarship; in 1986 Hemer published his important work, The Letters to the Seven Churches in the Local Setting (Sheffield: JSOT Press; revised edition Eerdmans, 2000); this volume was a rewrite of his Ph. D. thesis done under F. F. Bruce at the University of Manchester in 1969)

Colin John Hemer : In Memoriam, via WWW, March 30, 2020 (Colin John Hemer; born 11 September 1930; entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1949; he spent two years (1953-1955) in the Royal Army Pay Corps, then taught mostly Latin or Classics in grammar or preparatory schools for ten years ; he left teaching to enter the University of Manchester in 1965 where he completed a doctoral dissertation with the title "A Study of the Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia with Special Reference to Their Local Background;" from 1970 to 1977 he engaged in research at Tyndale House; he served as a Temporary Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Manchester University from 1977 to 1979 and at Sheffield University from 1982 to 1983; he was the Librarian at Tyndale house from 1980 to 1982; from 1983 until his death on 14 June 1987, he was a Research Fellow at Tyndale House; before his death, he was primarily engaged in research and writing toward the production of a two volume work on the historicity of Acts) https://s3.amazonaws.com/tgc-documents/carson/1987_Hemer.pdf