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- ↑ "Peter Oakes appointed to Rylands Chair". Peter Oakes appointed to Rylands Chair. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Biblical Scholarship in the Twentieth Century: The Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, 1904–2004, Timothy T. Larsen, ed. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 86:3 (Autumn 2004)