C. H. Dodd

Dodd was born on 7 April 1884 in the Welsh town of Wrexham,{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=497}} Denbighshire. He was the elder brother of the historian A. H. Dodd, the classicist P. W. Dodd and the teacher E. E. Dodd. He studied classics at University College, Oxford, from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he studied under the influential Adolf von Harnack.

He studied for the ministry at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1912.{{sfn|Caird|1974|pp=498–499}} He was a Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, before going into academia.{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=499}} From 1915{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford.{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=499}} He became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1930.{{sfn|Dodd|1965|p=3}} He was Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=504}} from 1935, becoming emeritus in 1949. His students from Cambridge include David Daube and W. D. Davies. The three together, each through his own work, ushered in changes in New Testament studies that led to the New Perspective on Paul and the scholarship of Davies's student, E. P. Sanders.

He directed the work of the New English Bible translators,{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=506}} from 1950.

He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1946.{{sfn|Caird|1974|p=508}} He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1961.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42370/supplement/4143|title=Page 4143 | Supplement 42370, 2 June 1961 | London Gazette | the Gazette}}

Dodd died on 21 September 1973 in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. His daughter Rachel married the Old Testament scholar Eric William Heaton in 1951.

• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |title=The Meaning of Paul for Today |url=https://archive.org/details/meaningofpaulfor008866mbp |location=London |publisher=Allen and Unwin |date=1920 |oclc=263558031 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Gospel in the New Testament |url=https://archive.org/details/gospelinnewtesta00dodduoft |location=London |publisher=The National Sunday School Union |date=n.d. |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Authority of the Bible |url=https://archive.org/details/MN41598ucmf_7/page/n5/mode/2up |series=Library of constructive theology |location=London |publisher=HarperCollins |date=1929 |oclc=559048103 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Bible and Its Background |location=London |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |date=1931 |oclc=931312025 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=Epistle of Paul to the Romans |series=Moffatt New Testament commentary |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |date=1932 |oclc=2685372 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Framework of the Gospel Narrative |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1932 |oclc=643640621 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=There and Back Again. Tales, etc. |location=London |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |date=1932 |oclc=559049636 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Mind of Paul: A Psychological Approach |location=Manchester |publisher=John Rylands Library |date=1933 |oclc=1027034524 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Bible and the Greeks |location=London |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |date=1935 |oclc=362655 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Parables of the Kingdom |location=London |publisher=Nisbet |date=1935 |isbn=9780006251941 |oclc=815611100 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments: Three Lectures with an Eschatology and History: three lectures with an appendix on eschatology and history |location=New York |publisher=Harper |date=1935 |oclc=301542028 |ref=none}}{{cite web|url=http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=539 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060911081013/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=539 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2006 |title=The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments: Three Lectures with an Eschatology and History: three lectures with an appendix on eschatology and history |access-date=1 May 2019 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The First Epistle of John and the Fourth Gospel |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester University Press |date=1937 |oclc=15165498 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=History and the Gospel |url=https://archive.org/details/MN41398ucmf_8 |location=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |date=1938 |oclc=865693 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=How to Read the Gospels |location=London |publisher=Press & Publications Board of the Church Assembly |date=1941 |oclc=611543091 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Bible Today |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1946 |oclc=474984013 |ref=none}}{{cite web|url=http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=689 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912044029/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=689 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2006 |title=The Bible Today |access-date=1 May 2019 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Johannine Epistles |series=Moffatt New Testament commentary |location=London |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |date=1946 |oclc=1068159111 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=About the Gospels |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1950 |oclc=2928350 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Coming of Christ: Four Broadcast Addresses for the Season of Advent |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1951 |oclc=65014900 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity |series=Bampton Lectures at Columbia University |volume=3 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |date=1951 |oclc=383749 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=According to the Scriptures: The Substructure of New Testament Theology |location=London |publisher=Nisbet |date=1952 |oclc=382427 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=Christianity and the Reconciliation of the Nations |series=Burge memorial lecture, 1951 |location=London |publisher=SCM Press |date=1952 |oclc=3579446 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Bratsiotis |author2-first=Panagiotis I. |author3-last=Bultmann |author3-first=Rudolf |author3-link=Rudolf Bultmann |author4-last=Clavier |author4-first=Henri |title=Man in God's Design According to the New Testament |series=General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Bern, 1952 |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas |date=1953 |oclc=2057337 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Old Testament in the New |series=Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 4 March 1952 |location=London |publisher=The Athlone Press |date=1952 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel |url=https://archive.org/details/interpretationof0000dodd |url-access=registration |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1953 |isbn=9780521095174 |oclc=383172 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=New Testament Studies |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester University Press |date=1953 |oclc=4644418 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=Benefits of His Passion |location=New York |publisher=Abingdon Press |date=1956 |oclc=1375926 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Leader: A Vivid Portrayal of the Last Years of the Life of Jesus |location=London |publisher=Independent Press |date=1958 |oclc=810737417 |ref=none}} - fiction
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=A New Testament Triptych: On Christ's Coming, His Gospel, His Passion |location=Cincinnati, OH |publisher=Forward Movement Publications |date=1965 |oclc=4596408 |ref=none}} - called Triptych on spine
• {{cite book |author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1963 |isbn=9780521291231 |oclc=383174 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaltradit0000dodd |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=More New Testament Studies |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester University Press |date=1968 |isbn=9780719003332 |oclc=468418 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Founder of Christianity |url=https://archive.org/details/founderofchristi0000dodd |url-access=registration |location=London, ON |publisher=Macmillan |date=1970 |isbn=9780020846406 |oclc=150285484 |ref=none}}{{cite web |url=http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2241 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060911142546/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2241 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2006 |title=The Founder of Christianity |access-date=1 May 2019 |ref=none}}

• {{cite journal|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Framework of the Gospel Narrative |journal=Expository Times |volume=43 |date=1932 |issue=9 |pages=396–400 |doi=10.1177/001452463204300903 |s2cid=171035798 |ref=none}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=A New Gospel |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=20 |issue=1 |date=January 1936 |pages=56–92 |doi=10.7227/BJRL.20.1.3 |ref=none}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The First Epistle of John and the Fourth Gospel |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=21 |issue=1 |date=1937 |pages=129–156 |doi=10.7227/BJRL.21.1.5 |ref=none}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Gospel as History: A Reconsideration |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=22 |issue=1 |date=1938 |pages=122–143 |doi=10.7227/BJRL.22.1.5 |ref=none}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Dodd |author1-first=Charles H. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Dialogue Form in the Gospels |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=37 |issue=1 |date=September 1954 |pages=54–67 |doi=10.7227/BJRL.37.1.4 |ref=none}}

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• [https://biography.wales/article/s6-DODD-HAR-1884 Biography] (National Library of Wales)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060217215959/http://homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/thought/dodd.htm Radical Faith]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204329/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3368 Preaching and Teaching in the Early Church] Chapter 1 of Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity (1951)

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