William Horbury is a Church of England priest and former Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at Cambridge University
He graduated BA from Oriel College, Oxford in 1964 and entered Westcott House, Cambridge for ordination training in the same year. He was ordained deacon in 1969 and priest in 1970, having become a Fellow of Clare College in 1968. He completed his Cambridge PhD thesis in 1971.
1972-78 - he served as Rector of Great and Little Gransden in the Diocese of Ely
1978 he became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and is now a Life Fellow
In 1984 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge
In 1998 he became Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies
1990-2014 - he served as honorary priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge
He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997