People

The following members of staff are affiliated with our centre.

Professor Peter Oakes

  • Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
  • Research interests: New Testament in the Graeco-Roman world, Paul's letters and theology, diversity among New Testament audiences, archaeology, economics.
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Dr Todd Klutz

  • Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Early Christian Literature
  • Research interests: Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, magic in late antiquity, Gnosticism, The Testament of Solomon.
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Dr Holly Morse

  • Senior Lecturer in Bible, Gender and Culture
  • Research interests: The Hebrew Bible, gender criticism, feminist criticism, visual arts, female biblical interpretation, reception theory, critical theory, hermeneutics.
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Dr Andrew Boakye

  • Lecturer in Religions and Theology
  • Research interests: Pauline theology, Pauline Christology, Abraham, the use of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, identity construction in ancient Christianity.
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Dr Sarah Parkhouse

  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow – "Coptic Apocrypha, Lived Religion, and the Egyptian Landscape"
  • Research interests: early Christianity, ancient religions, place, space and landscape.
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Professor Stuart Campbell

  • Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
  • Research interests: archaeology of the Near and Middle East, social meanings of pottery, scientific archaeology and the use of computers in archaeology.
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Prof Daniel Langton

  • Head of the Department of Religions and Theology
  • Research interests: Jewish history, with particular expertise in Jewish–Christian relations.
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Dr Jeremy Penner

  • Curator of African and Near Eastern Manuscripts, John Rylands Library
  • Research interests: Dead Sea Scrolls, papyrology, prayer, ritual, ancient sacrifice and priesthood.

Prof Alexander Samely

Current and Recent PhD Students

Sherry Ashworth

David Bell

  • Thesis: Children in the community of the text: The place of children and childhood in the formation, transmission and reception of New Testament texts in early Christian communities
  • Supervisors: Peter Oakes and Roberta Mazza

Anna Budhi-Thornton

  • Thesis: To what extent can we learn of the masculinity of the historical Jesus and can this help feminist interpretation of the New Testament biblical texts?
  • Supervisors: Peter Oakes and Holly Morse

Lev Eakins

Tim Gough

  • Thesis: Rereading the god-fearers in Acts: History, rhetoric, and category construction.
  • Supervisors: Todd Klutz and Andrew Boakye

Vivian Jones-Johnson

  • Thesis: God has left the building: The death of the black church. A Study in black gender and sexuality
  • Supervisors: Peter Oakes and Holly Morse

Mateusz Krzesinski

  • Thesis: Circumcision of heart in Romans 2:29 in light of the Jewish concept of purity
  • Supervisors: Peter Oakes and Andrew Boakye

Rachel Miller

  • Thesis: An intersectional analysis of women's agency, men's violence, and victim-blaming in the Hebrew bible
  • Supervisors: Holly Morse and Todd Klutz

Georgia Ovens

  • Thesis: The application of woman as symbol, women as agents (Susan Starr Sered, 1999): Concepts of gender in select writings from the Nag Hammadi Codices
  • Supervisors: Holly Morse and Todd Klutz

John Saleeb

Daniel Skuce

Julie Thornton

  • Thesis: What influence did the Roman Empire have on Paul's view of imperialism as he grew up in Tarsus and how did this reflect in his letters?
  • Supervisors: Peter Oakes and Andrew Boakye

Andrew Wisdom

  • Thesis: The renewing of your minds: Psychological trauma and mental health in the Pauline Epistles
  • Supervisors: Todd Klutz and Andrew Boakye

Emeritus Staff

Professor Philip S Alexander FBA

  • Emeritus Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Studies
  • Research interests: Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targums, Jewish Bible interpretation, Jewish mysticism
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Professor George J Brooke

  • Emeritus Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
  • Research interests: Dead Sea Scrolls; Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha; use of the Old Testament in the New Testament

Professor John F Healey FBA

  • Emeritus Professor of Semitic Studies
  • Research interests: Semitic languages; Aramaic and Syriac epigraphy and linguistics; Syriac Christianity
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Professor Bernard Jackson

  • Emeritus Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
  • Research interests: Biblical law

Honorary Research Fellows

Professor Loveday Alexander

  • Research interests: Luke-Acts

Dr JL Andruska

  • Research interests: Biblical and ancient near Eastern wisdom literature; song of songs and ancient near eastern love literature; Hebrew/Aramaic linguistics and philology; cognitive linguistics; love, sexuality and gender in the Hebrew Bible; Feminist interpretations; Biblical Law; ancient near eastern and Greco-Roman history.

Dr Stephen Barton

  • Research interests: New Testament

Dr Kent Brower

  • Research interests: the Gospel of Mark; holiness in the New Testament

Revd Canon Professor Richard Burridge

  • Research interests: Jesus, the Gospels and New Testament ethics

Dr Maria Cioata

Dr Matthew Collins

  • Research interests: Dead Sea Scrolls, reception history of the Bible

Dr Adrian H W Curtis

  • Research interests: Ugaritic literature and Canaanite religion, the religion and history of ancient Israel, the book of Psalms

Dr Walter Houston

  • Research interests: Social justice in the Old Testament

Dr Helen R Jacobus

Dr Siobhán Jolley

  • Research Interests: Religion and art with specialisms in Mary Magdalene, the reception of biblical women and the New Testament in art and popular culture, and feminist approaches.

Dr Dominika Kurek-Chomycz

  • Research interests: Corinthian correspondence, gender, emotions and sense perception in early Judaism and early Christianity, Septuagint

Dr David Lamb

  • Research interests: The Gospel of John; sociolinguistics

Professor Paul Middleton

  • Research interests: Martyrology; early Christian identity; music and theology

Professor Mary Mills

  • Research interests: Biblical morality; pain and suffering in the prophetic literature

Dr Dwight Swanson

  • Research interests: The Dead Sea Scrolls; rewritten Bible

Dr Megan Warner

  • Research interests: Genesis and Pentateuch; trauma as a hermeneutical lens.

Staff of affiliated theological colleges

  • Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College)
  • Dr Samuel Hildebrandt (Nazarene)
  • Dr Svetlana Khobnya (Nazarene)
  • Dr MiJa Wi (Nazarene)