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
- History of the Israelite priesthood
- Ritual innovation in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism
- 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
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
- History of the Israelite priesthood
- Ritual innovation in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism
- 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
- 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
- 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
MPhil student in Old Testament
MPhil student in Old Testament
False Prophecy as a Scribal Construct in the Book of Jeremiah
Conceptions of Covenant in the Early Israelite Monarchy
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
MPhil student in Old Testament
Putting Tamar in her Place
Ritualisation in Deuteronomistic Narratives of War
Examining interconnectedness and hybridity in the story of the Ark of the Covenant when read alongside theories of material agency for the purpose of dialogue with ecocritical and ecotheological issues
MPhil student in Old Testament