 Lecturer in Palaeography in 1903-1905, Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge 1905-1936 Chief promoter of and author of the Preface for the English translation of Schweitzer's book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, by W. Montgomery.Burkitt accompanied Robert Bensly, James Rendel Harris, and sisters Agnes and Margaret Smith on the 1893 expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt to examine a Syriac palimpsest of the Gospels discovered there the previous year by the sisters.Burkitt played an important role in deciphering the text and in subsequent publication of the team's findings.