Thompson , Robert John

1924-2000. He began training at N.Z. Baptist Theological College as a 20-year old. He then pastored the Manurewa 1947-52; and Opawa 1952-58 Baptist Churches prior to master’s studies at Ruschlikon Baptist Seminary and doctoral studies at the University of Zürich 1959-1960. He returned to a lecturing position at N.Z. Baptist Theological College in 1961 (also teaching Hebrew at the University of Auckland). He served as Principal of the Baptist College, 1973-1984. He subsequently lectured at Spurgeon’s College, London, and Whitley College, Melbourne, prior to retirement in N.Z.. He was an able scholar with an encyclopaedic knowledge who authored two books, Moses and the Law in a Century of Criticism since Graf and Penitence and Sacrifice in early Israel outside the Levitical law. Ref.: Obituary: NZB February 2001.