People specializing in this area
University Teaching Officers
- Second Temple Judaism
- Apocrypha
- The Septuagint
- Book of Judges
- Hebrew language and Lexicography
- Greek language and Lexicography
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel
- Intersection of inner-biblical interpretation, redaction criticism and the canonical approach
- Intersection of history of Israelite religion and Old Testament theology
- Priesthood and ritual
Academic staff
- Second Temple Judaism
- Apocrypha
- The Septuagint
- Book of Judges
- Hebrew language and Lexicography
- Greek language and Lexicography
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- Biblical interpretation
- Death and the afterlife
- Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel
- Intersection of inner-biblical interpretation, redaction criticism and the canonical approach
- Intersection of history of Israelite religion and Old Testament theology
- Priesthood and ritual
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Directors of Studies
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Retired Faculty
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies
Graduate students
The Obligations of Gift-exchange in Ancient Societies as Context for Selected Narratives in the Book of Judges
False Prophecy as a Scribal Construct in the Book of Jeremiah
MPhil student in Old Testament
MPhil student in Old Testament
PhD research topic: 'Lexemes and Inner-Syriac developments in the Peshitta of Genesis'
The Exegetical Practice of Interpreting Mosaic Law in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah as an Agent of Identity Formation
Homonymy and Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography
The argument in heaven: Unmerited and excessive suffering in the book of Job
Putting Tamar in her Place
MPhil student in Old Testament
Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
MPhil student in Old Testament
Reading the Old Testament through ecocritical eyes, with a view to understanding causality in the texts that feature divine, human and nonhuman agencies
MPhil student in Old Testament
A Portrait of Solomon: The Relationship between 1 Kings 1-11, Proverbs, Songs, and Ecclesiastes