Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was a professor of biblical studies at the Harvard Divinity School. A member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker), in 1917 Cadbury helped to found the American Friends Service Committee, a social justice organization that brought aid to civilian victims of the First World War. When the American Friends Service Committee and the British Friends Service Council jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, Cadbury delivered the Nobel lecture.

Much of Cadbury’s scholarly focus was on the writings of Luke. He published a series of articles entitled “Lexical Notes on Luke-Acts” in which he closely scrutinized various features of Lukan linguistic usage. His 1919 doctoral thesis, The Style and Literary Method of Luke, remains a valuable resource for assessing the author of Luke’s style, and his monograph The Making of Luke-Acts (New York: MacMillan, 1927) is a useful handbook for Lukan studies to the present day.