https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._F._Bruce
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Frederick Fyvie Bruce FBA (12 October 1910 – 11 September 1990) was born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, the son of a Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) preacher and educated at the University of Aberdeen, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of Vienna, where he studied with Paul Kretschmer, an Indo-European philologist.[2]

Bruce was in Christian fellowship at various places during his life, though his primary commitment was to the Open Brethren among whom he grew up.

[7] He enjoyed the fellowship and acceptance of this group, though he was very much a maverick in relation to his own personal beliefs. 

He never accepted a specific brand of dispensationalism[8] usually associated with the Brethren, although he may have held a historic premillennialism[9] akin to George Eldon Ladd[10]

After teaching Greek for several years, first at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Leeds, he became head of the Department of Biblical History and Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947. 

Aberdeen University bestowed an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him in 1957.

[3] In 1959 he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester where he became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.

[4] He wrote over 40 books and served as editor of The Evangelical Quarterly and the Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 

He retired from teaching in 1978.

Most of Bruce's works were scholarly, but he also wrote many popular works on the Bible. 

He viewed the New Testament writings as historically reliable and the truth claims of Christianity as hinging on their being so. 

To Bruce this did not mean that the Bible was always precise, or that this lack of precision could not lead to some confusion. He believed, however, that the passages that were still open to debate were ones that had no substantial bearing on Christian theology and thinking. 

Bruce's colleague at Manchester, James Barr, considered Bruce a "conservative liberal".[6]

Bruce was a friend and colleague of Henry Leopold Ellison.