Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis
- About
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- Email Address
- grant.macaskill@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273039
- Office Address
Room KCF3, King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
AB24 3UB
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
Grant Macaskill (Ph.D, Uni. St Andrews, 2005) was appointed to the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis in 2015. Prior to this, he had taught as Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His work engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism, an identification that underlies research interested in both the historical dimensions of the New Testament and its significance to contemporary theological and ethical issues. He has written widely on the Enoch traditions in early Judaism and later Christianity and on participatory theologies, especially as these relate to the idea of "union with Christ." In theological ethics and practical theology, he has written on the implications of union with Christ for Christian identity and on the relevance of Bible and theology to thinking about autism. He is the co-director of the Centre for Autism and Theology.
Among his works, Professor Macaskill is the author of Union with Christ in the New Testament (Oxford University Press, 2013), The New Testament and Intellectual Humility (Oxford University Press, 2019), Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology and Community (Baylor, 2019) and Living in Union with Christ (Baker, 2019), which is also now available in Portuguese as Vivendo em união com Cristo: o evangelho de Paulo e a identidade moral crista, trans. Breno Nunes de Oliveira Seabra (Editoria Fiel, 2021).
Professor Macaskill is joint editor with Annette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard) of the Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha series, published by Brill (Boston/Leiden) and is on the editorial board of New Testament Studies.
In 2021, he was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, for his project, "The Entangled Enoch: Comparing the Uniquely Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch Texts and Locating Them in Early Jewish and Christian Traditions."
External Memberships
Member, Society for the Study of the New Testament (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas), elected 2020.
Series Editor (with Annette Yoshiko Reed), Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Member of Editorial Boards:
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Journal of Theological Interpretation
New Testament Studies
Consulting Editor:
Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies. 10 Volumes. Zondervan (HarperCollins). New Series.
Prizes and Awards
At University of Aberdeen:
British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
The Entangled Enoch: Comparing the Uniquely Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch Texts and Locating Them in Early Jewish and Christian Traditions
Value: £131,002. Awarded 2021.
Previously (University of St Andrews):
The Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility Project, funded by John Templeton Foundation and Saint Louis University.
Intellectual Humility and the New Testament
Value: $86,450. Awarded 2014 to fund 1 year of research leave.
Published as The New Testament and Intellectual Humility (Oxford University Press, 2019)
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
A Critical Edition of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch.
Value : £96, 000 (Actual £62,744, due to early completion). Awarded in 2005.
Published as The Slavonic Texts of 2 Enoch. (Studia Judaeoslavica 6. Leiden: Brill, 2013)
- Publications
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Measuring the Unmeasurable:: Reframing the Language of Mystery, Knowledge, and Love in Ephesians 3–4
Divine and Human Love in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Lincicum, D., Crabbe, K. (eds.). Mohr SiebeckChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-163464-2
The "Non-Biblical" Writings of Early Judaism
The Oxford Handbook of Deification. Oxford University Press, pp. 45-59, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198865179.013.5
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The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity
Vol. SVTP 28, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden. 399 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksUnited by Neurodiversity: Postgraduate Research in a Neurodiverse Context
Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 537-551Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIsrael’s Scriptures in Early Jewish Literature
Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. Henze, M., Lincicum, D. (eds.). Eerdmans Press, pp. 109–137, 38 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)The Idolatrous Self and the Eikon: The Possibility of True Worship
The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology. Dugan, K., Ziegler, P. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 84–103, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004509887_007
The Bible, Autism and Other Profound Developmental Conditions: Regulating Hermeneutics
Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 414-438Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAutism and Biblical Studies: Establishing and Extending the Field beyond Preliminary Reflection
Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 388-411Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntroduction: Beyond Exegesis—Biblical Studies and the Phenomena of Disability
Journal of Disability and Religion, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 361-362Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1912685
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Dynamic Reciprocity and Ontological Affinity in the Pauline Account of Solidarity
International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 18-28Contributions to Journals: Special Issues