International Tiger day

South Asian Studies. To celebrate International Tiger Day (29 July) see... Jackie Suthren Hirst and John Zavos, 'Riding a tiger? South Asia and the problem of "religion"' in Contemporary South Asia (2005) 14:1, 3-20.

PhD Success

Religion and Theology. Scott McPeak passed his PhD viva on 18th July. The thesis was titled: "A New Frontier for Liberation Theology? A Critical, Theological Investigation of Attention Colonisation in Advanced Technological Societies." Scott was supervised by Peter Scott and Scott Midson. 

New Publication

Biblical Studies. Helen R. Jacobus, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Biblical Studies, has had a book review published: “A Star from Jacob, a Sceptre from Israel: Balaam’s Oracle as Rewritten Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Libor Marek,” in Dead Sea Discoveries 30.2 (2023), pp. 175-177. Further information.

New Publication

Biblical Studies. Todd Klutz has published a new book titled "Metaphor, Ritual, and Order in John 12-13: Judas and the Prince." The book offers new interpretative insight into the Gospel of John, applying a combination of critical discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and anthropological theories of ritual. It is published by Routledge. Further information.

New Publication

Jewish Studies. Alex Samely, “The Use of Genre for Many Text Meanings: Apocalypse and 1 Enoch”, in Lorenzo DiTommaso and Matthew Goff (eds.), Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature Press), pp. 157–196. Further information.

New publication

Religion and Science. Daniel R. Langton, 'Naphtali Levy's Divine World: Jewish Tradition, Panentheism and Darwinism', Theology and Science 23:1 (2023), 1-19. Further information.