2/23/2023 0 Comments Heavenly bodies birmingham review![]() Moses, Mount Sinai, and Early Christian Mystics, Wise Studies, 2021. ![]() Gregory of Nyssa’s Tabernacle Imagery in its Jewish and Christian Contexts, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).Heavenly Ascent in Early Christian Mysticism.Divided by Common Scriptures: Early Jews and Christians Read the Bible.Oxford University Department of Continuing Education Heavenly Ascent: The Beginnings of Christian Mysticism.Revisiting Genesis: New Angles on Old Stories.A Portable God: The Origins of Judaism and Christianity.Fire in the Bones: Encountering the Prophet Jeremiah.Tabernacle and Temple in Old and New Testaments (MA module).School for Professional and Continuing Education, University of Birmingham I am passionate about making academic research accessible and relevant. Past and present courses include:ĭepartment of Theology, University of Birmingham I have been involved in a wide range of teaching, in both academic and church settings. I spent four years on national CCJ’s Board of Trustees, as joint Honorary Secretary. My academic research into early Jewish and Christian mystical exegesis has been complemented by involvement in Jewish–Christian dialogue. I am Chair of Birmingham CCJ (Council of Christians and Jews). From the M.A., I progressed to a PhD at the University of Manchester, supervised by Professor Philip Alexander, and funded by the AHRC. in Jewish–Christian relations by distance learning, at the Centre for the Study of Jewish–Christian Relations (now the Woolf Institute) in Cambridge. It was during that time that I embarked on an M.A. After my first son was born, I worked part-time as an Anglican chaplain at the University. Whilst working in the parish of St Matthew’s and St Chad’s, Smethwick, I taught myself Hebrew. in theology at the University of Birmingham in the process. I trained as an Accredited Lay Worker for the Church of England at The Queen’s College, Birmingham, completing a B.Litt. For example, I write Bible and sermon notes for the ecumenical magazine Roots, which provides liturgical resources for the weekly lectionary. Through a range of popular writing, I aim to make academic scholarship accessible. I am actively involved in Jewish–Christian dialogue, and am Chair of Birmingham Council of Christians and Jews. I teach biblical studies, early Jewish–Christian relations, and the development of mystical theology for The Queen’s Foundation Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre Birmingham Church of England diocese and Oxford University Department of Continuing Studies. I am a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury. For six years I taught biblical Hebrew in the Department of Theology and Religion. My PhD research, involving a range of Jewish and Christian mystical writings about the heavenly temple, has been published by OUP as Gregory of Nyssa’s Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts. ![]() My research interest is early Jewish–Christian relations, focussing particularly on biblical exegesis and the origins of mysticism.
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