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Biblical studies. Honorary fellow Prof Loveday Alexander has published “Luke’s Urban Imagination” in John Kloppenborg (ed.), Early Christianity in Civic Space (BETL 343; Leuven: Peeters, 2026). This was a contribution to the 2023 Colloquium held at KU Leuven in July 2023.

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Philosophy and religion. David Law has published "Kierkegaard's Existential Apophaticism" in The Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology, pp. 394-413. Further information.

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Jewish studies. Honorary research fellow Rob Kanter has published ‘Using histories of Jewish–Muslim relations to challenge misconceptions and highlight hidden histories in the teaching of the Holocaust’, Teaching History 203 (2006), pp. 14–22. The article is based upon sessions Rob led at the Historical Association conference in 2024 and 2025. One purpose is to provide a brief historiographical summary of how Jewish-Muslim relations have evolved in popular and scholarly spheres since 1900. The main intention is to provide teachers with increased subject knowledge and pedagogical suggestions about two case studies of Muslim rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, and how these narratives can be integrated into and expand wider Holocaust schemes of learning. Further information.

New Book Publication

Biblical studies. PhD graduate David E. Bell has published a revised version of his thesis as Children's Lives and Deaths in 1 Thessalonians: Impacts on Interpreting Context and Text. The monograph is part of the prestigious Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS), published with T&T Clark/Bloomsbury. Further information.

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Buddhist studies. Erica Baffelli has published “‘Being with’: Support Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Journal of Global Buddhism 27.1 (2026): 1-18. Further information. 

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Religion in Japan. Guy Baldwin (Law) has published 'The Diffusion of Religious Freedom in Japan' with Ayako Hatano in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law 20.3: 545–64. Further information.

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Biblical studies. Honorary Research Fellow Helen R. Jacobus, has published "Enochic Literature as a Vehicle for the Circulation of the Zodiac between Roman and Byzantine Egypt and Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine," in Enoch Studies in the 2000s: New Vistas, ed. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Matthew Goff and Joshua Scott (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Studies. v. 63; DeGruyter: Berli, 2026), 285-321. Further information.

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Biblical studies. Andy Boakye has published "Top Boy: Honour, Shame and Violence in the Biblical and Modern Manosphere" in the volume For Nothing is Hidden: Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology (SCM Press), edited by Will Rose Moore. Further information.

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Early Christianity. Sarah Parkhouse has published 'Fatal Charades and the Christian Martyrological Imagination' in Classical Antiquity 45.1 (2026): 218–241. Further information.

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Biblical studies. Samuel Hildebrandt (NTC), “‘Let Us Strike Him with the Tongue!’ The Violence of Speech in Isaiah and Jeremiah.” In The Bible and Violence. Volume I: Violence in Biblical Texts. Edited by C. Greenough, J. Stiebert, J. Jodamus, and M.D. Kebaneilwe. London: T&T Clark, 2026. Further information.

New Booklet Publication

Religion and emotion. Erica Baffelli has published a booklet for the Fear and Belonging project titled Creating Community, which shares short reflections from the project. Erica writes: 'The aim of this publication is to capture some of the feelings, experiences, practices and atmospheres running through the stories participants shared with us during interviews and to reflect on some of what we have learnt. The artwork is by Sian Fan, the artist working with us on the project, who has created an image for each of the themes we reflect on in writing, exploring them from a visual perspective.' The booklet is available open access here.

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Christian studies. Siobhán Jolley, Saints (London: National Gallery / Yale University Press, 2026), 144pp. Saints explores the saints depicted in the collection at the National Gallery, charting not only a history of devotion but also the development of Western European art itself. Saints takes a close look at how some of the most splendid depictions of these figures still speak to us across the centuries. Further information.

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Dead Sea Scrolls. George Brooke has published “A Response and Some Ways Forward,” The (Con)textual Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Orion Symposium, February 28–March 3, 2022. Published in Honor of Esther G. Chazon (ed. R.A. Clements, M.B. Johnson, N. Mizrahi, and M. Segal; STDJ 157; Leiden: Brill, 2026), 375-381. Further information.

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Pauline Studies. Daniel R. Langton, "Paul" in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, edited by Homolka, Kampling, Levine, Markschies, Schäfer and Thurner (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2026), 10pp. ISSN 2569-3530. "Both historically and theologically, a case can be made that Paul continues to be the single most controversial and influential figure for Jewish-Christian relations." Further information.

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Theology. Peter Scott’s A Theology of Postnatural Right (2019) has been published in Korean by Daejanggan Publishing. Warm thanks to Seoyoung Kim, an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department, who undertook the translation work. Dr Kim has recently been appointed Lecturer in Applied Theology and Ministry Placements Programme Lead at Belfast School of Theology.

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Jewish Studies. Honorary research fellow Helen R. Jacobus has published “calendars, Jewish.” In Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2026. Further information.

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Hebrew and Arabic studies. Peter Pormann (Classics) and William Smith have published "The Alexandrian Summary of Galen’s Sects for Beginner in Hebrew Translation" in Intellectual History of the Islamicate World. Further information.

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Methodist studies. Stephen Wright (NTC) has published "'Widest Extremes to Join': Christ Beyond Paradox in the Hymns of Charles Wesley," Pro Ecclesia (Feb 2026). Further information

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Methodist studies. Tina Woof (PhD Candidate at NTC) has published "Phoebe Palmer: Holiness as Kenotic Foundation for Proto-Feminist Advocacy," Wesley and Methodist Studies 18 (2026): 54–78. Further information.

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Biblical studies. Sarah Parkhouse has published 'The Limits of the Dialogue Gospel Genre: Recategorizing the Gospel of Thomas', Early Christianity 17 (2026): 31-47. Further information.