C. T. R. Hayward


Charles Thomas Robert Hayward is a British academic and retired Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.

Academic career

After receiving a BA, MA and DPhil he lectured at Lancaster University. He returned to Durham being appointed Lecturer in Theology, Senior Lecturer and Reader.
In 2006, Hayward was elected President of the Society for Old Testament Studies. He was President in 2003 of the British Association for Jewish Studies.

Books

In 2016 he was convicted of child pornography charges at Durham Crown Court, sentenced to a two-year community supervision order and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order and registered as a sex offender, both for five years.