Mrs Ethel M Wood was daughter of Quintin Hogg, founder of the Regent Street Polytechnic, and herself deeply interested in education. When she died in 1970, she left a bequest to the University to provide for an annual lecture on the English Bible. The bequest made possible the continuation of the series initiated in 1947 by a lecture on 'The Bible and Modern Scholarship' by Sir Frederick Kenyon and directly supported by Mrs Wood during her lifetime. She also presented to the University her unique collection of Bibles, together with a sum of money to enable that collection to be extended. It was her love of the English Bible and her belief that it forms so rich a part of the cultural heritage of this country that led her to these generous actions.

1947	Frederic George Kenyon [1863-1952], The Bible and Modern Scholarship. Ethel M. Wood Lecture for 1947. London: John Murray, 1949. pp. ix + 53. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
1948	Lord Elton, Some Reflections on the Bible in History.
1950	C.S. Lewis, The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 20th March, 1950. London: The Athlone Press, 1950. Pbk. pp.26.
1951	Prof. Margaret Deanesly, The Significance of the Lollard Bible. Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 13 March, 1951 London: Athlone Press, 1951. pp.23. pdf
1952	Charles Harold Dodd [1884-1973], The Old Testament in the New. Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 4 March 1952. London: The Athlone Press, 1952. Pbk. pp.21. pdf
1953	Francis Wormald [1904-1972], Biblical Illustrated Manuscripts in England.
1954	T.W. Manson [1893-1958], Jesus and the non-Jews. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 3 March 1954. London: The Athlone Press, 1955. Pbk. pp.22. pdf
1957	Rev. Prof. Harold Henry Rowley [1890-1969], Jewish Apocalyptic and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 12 March 1957. London: The Athlone Press, 1957. Pbk. pp.36. pdf
1958	Dr. Kathleen M. Kenyon, Archaeology and the Old Testament.
1959	The Very Rev. E. Milner-White, The New Translation of the Bible.
1960	Rev. G. Henton-Davies, The Portrayal of God in the Bible - the 'Classic' Theme.
1961	Prof. Joachim Jeremias [1900-1979], The Sermon on the Mount. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 7 March 1961. London: The Athlone Press, 1961. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143127. pp.33. pdf
1962	Rev. Leonard Herbert Brockington [1906-1978], Ideas of Mediation Between God and Man in the Apocrypha. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 6 March 1962. London: The Athlone Press, 1962. Pbk. pp.23. pdf
1963	The Most Reverend A.M. Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity and the Supernatural. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 5 March 1963. London: The Athlone Press, 1963. Pbk. pp.14 pdf
1964	Rev. Canon C.F.D. Moule, Man and Nature in the New Testament. Some Reflections on Biblical Ecology. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 9 March 1964. London: The Athlone Press, 1964. Pbk. pp.22. pdf
1965	Rev. George B. Caird, Jesus and the Jewish Nation. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 9 March 1965. London: The Athlone Press, 1965. Pbk. pp.22. pdf
1966	Rev. Prof. M. Black, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Doctrine. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 8 February, 1966. London: The Athlone Press, 1966. Pbk. pp.24. pdf
1967	Prof. David Winton Thomas [1901-1970], Understanding the Old Testament. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 6 March 1967. London: The Athlone Press, 1967. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143127. pp.22. pdf
1968	The Rev. Prof. Henry Chadwick, The Enigma of St. Paul. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 27 February 1968. London: The Athlone Press, 1969. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143135. pp.22. pdf
1969	Rev. Prof. G.W.H. Lampe, St Luke and the Church of Jerusalem. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 4 March 1969. London: The Athlone Press, 1969. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143143. pp.22. pdf
1970	Rev. Prof. C.K. Barrett, The Prologue of St John's Gospel. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 19 February 1970. London: The Athlone Press, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143143. pp.28. pdf
1972	Hedley Frederick Davis Sparks [1908-1996], On Translations of the Bible. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 6 March 1972. London: Athlone Press, 1973. ISBN: 048514316X. pp.20. pdf
1973	Rev. Prof. Hubert Cunliffe-Jones [1905-1991], A Word for Our Time?: Zechariah 9-14, The New Testament and Today. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 15 February 1973. London: The Athlone Press, 1973. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143178. pp.24. pdf
1974	Prof. F.F. Bruce, The 'Secret' Gospel of Mark. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 11 February 1974. London: The Athlone Press, 1974. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143186. pp.20. pdf
1975	Rev. D.E. Nineham, New Testament Interpretation in an Historical Age. The Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on 4 March 1975. London: The Athlone Press, 1974. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143194. pp.25. pdf
1976	Rev. Prof. C.F. Evans, Parable and Dogma. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 24 February 1976. London: The Athlone Press, 1977. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143208. pp.22. pdf
1977	Prof. W.G. Lambert, The Background of Jewish Apocalyptic. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 22 February 1977. London: The Athlone Press, 1978. Pbk. ISBN: 0485143216. pp.22. pdf
1978	Dr. G.F. Nuttall, The Moment of Recognition: Luke as Storyteller. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 21 February 1978. London: University of London, 1978. Pbk. ISBN: 0485 143224. pp.16. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
1979	Rev. Prof. J.R. Porter, Folklore and the Old Testament. The 1979. Ethel M. Wood Lecture. pdf
1980	Prof. Ulrich E. Simon, Gambling With Job. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 5 June 1980. London: University of London, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0718105637.. pp.18. pdf
1981	Prof. Peter R. Ackroyd, Englishing the Psalms. The Ethel M. Wood lecture 1981 delivered at the Senate House, University of London on 2 March 1982. London: University of London, 1982. Pbk. pp.21. pdf [Used by permission of the Ackroyd Family]
1983	Rev. Prof. Barnabas Lindars, Interpreting Judges Today. The Ethel M. Wood lecture 1983, delivered at the Senate House, University of London on 8 February 1983. London: University of London, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 071870665X. pp.13.
1984	Morna D. Hooker, New Wine in Old Bottles: a Discussion of Continuity and Discontinuity in Relation to Judaism and the Gospel. The Ethel M. Wood lecture 1984 delivered at the Senate House, University of London on 14 February 1984. London: University of London, 1984. Pbk. pp.18.
1984	Prof. F. Kermode, The Bible: Story and Plot. The Ethel M. Wood lecture, 1984, delivered at the New Theatre, King's College, London on 4 December 1984. London: University of London, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0718707117. pp.12.
1986	Ernest Best [1917-2004], On Defining the Central Message of the New Testament. London: University of London, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0718707613. pp.17. pdf
1987	Prof. James Barr, Biblical Chronology, Legend or Science? The Ethel M. Wood lecture 1987, delivered at the Senate House, University of London on 4 March 1987. London: University of London, 1987. pp.19. pdf
1988	Dr. Robert Murray, S.J., Exegesis and Imagination. The Ethel M. Wood lecture 1988, delivered at the Senate House, University of London on 1 March 1988. London: University of London, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0718708652. pp.31. pdf
1989	Prof. Dan Jacobson, Biblical Narratives and Novelists' Narratives. The Ethel M. Wood lecture, 1989, delivered at the Senate House, University of London, on 9 March 1989. London: University of London, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0718709039. pp.21. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
1990	Prof. E.P. Sanders, The Question of Uniqueness in the Teaching of Jesus. London: University of London, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0718709616. pp.31. pdf
1991	Dr. M. de Jonge, Jesus' Message About the Kingdom of God in the Light of Contemporary Ideas. The Ethel M. Wood lecture, 12 March, 1991. London: University of London, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0718709861. pp.39. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
1992	Prof. Ronald E. Clements, Loving One's Neighbour: Old Testament Ethics in Context. London: University of London, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0718710347. pp.21. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the author]
1993	Prof. James D.G. Dunn, Paul for Today. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture, 10 March 1993. London: University of London, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0718711068. pp.29. pdf
1994	Rev. Dr. Richard Coggins, What Future for the 'History of Israel'? The Ethel M. Wood Lecture, given in London on 5 May 1994. Ethel M. Wood Trust. London: University of London, 1994. ISBN: 0718712072. pp.21. pdf
1995	Rev Dr. Anthony E. Harvey, Eunuchs For the Sake of the Kingdom. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 15 March 1995. London: University of London, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0718712749. pp.28. pdf
1996	Prof. H.G.M. Williamson, The Isaiah Memoir Reconsidered. pdf
1997	Prof. Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible: New Testament Exegesis in the Light of William Blake's Illuminated Books.
1998	Prof. Graeme Auld, Out of the Shadow of the Kings. Published in "History - Interpretation - Theology: Issues in Biblical Religion," in E. Ball, ed., In Search of True Wisdom. Essays in Old Testament Interpretation in Honour of Ronald E. Clements Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 300. Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 1841270717. pp.22-36 ; Republished, under that same title, in Graeme Auld, Samuel at the Threshold. Selected works of Graeme Auld Society for the Study of the Old Testament Study Series. Ashgate, 2004. Hbk. ISBN: 0754639134. pp.161-172.
1999	Rev. Prof. J.L. Houlden, Enlightenment, Establishment and the Word.
2000	Prof. John Barton, Moral Vision in the Old Testament.
2001	Prof. Michael Goulder, Psalm 8 and the Son of Man. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on = New Testament Studies 48 (2002): 18-29.
2002	Prof. John Rogerson, Measurable and Immeasurable: Themes in Old Testament Theology.
2003	Prof. John Riches, Paul and the Ethics of Desire: Gal. 5.17 in Reception-Historical Perspective.
2004	Prof. J. Cheryl Exum, The Poetic Genius of the Song of Songs, the Bible Only Love Poem.
2005	Prof. Francis Watson, "Have you not read…?" Christians, Jews and Scripture in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho . The Ethel M. Wood Lecture, University of London, 3 March 2005. pdf
2006	Prof. Philip Davies, The Old Testament as Philosophy.
2007	Prof. Loveday Alexander, The Myth of Salvation: Reading Luke's Acts in an Enchanted World.
2008	Revd. Prof. Walter Moberly, "Like any other book?" How should the Bible best be read?
2009	Andrew T. Lincoln, The Birth of Jesus in New Testament Tradition: A Variety of Conceptions?

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