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 IssuesIdentifications, Articulations and Proportions in Practical Theological Interpretation
Journal of Theological Interpretation, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-15Contributions to Journals: ArticlesJoy and Autism: Biblical, Theological and Practical Perspectives
Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 268-280Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeteorology and metrology: Evaluating parallels in the Ethiopic Parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 79-99Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAutism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community
Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas. 239 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLiving in Union with Christ: Paul's Gospel and Christian Moral Identity
Baker AcademicBooks and Reports: BooksPlaying God or Participating in God? What Considerations Might the New Testament Bring to the Ethics of the Biotechnological Future?
Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 152-164Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesThe New Testament and Intellectual Humility
Oxford University Press, Oxford. 270 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799856.001.0001
Book of Parables (1 Enoch 37–71)
T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., pp. 170-172, 3 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567694829.1033
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Christian Scriptures and the Formation of Intellectual Humility
Journal of Psychology and Theology, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 243-252Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesName Christology, Divine Aseity and the I Am Sayings in the Fourth Gospel
Journal of Theological Interpretation, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 217-241Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Adam Traditions and the Destruction of Ymir in the Eddas
The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone. DiTommaso, L., Henze, M., Adler, W. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 653-669, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004357211_035
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The Way the One God Works: Covenant and Ethics in 1 Corinthians
One God, One People, One Future: Essays in Honour of N.T. Wright. Dunne, J., Lewellyn, E. (eds.). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), pp. 112–125, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Autism Spectrum Disorders and the New Testament: Preliminary Reflections
Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 15-41Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHistory, providence and the apocalyptic Paul
Scottish Journal of Theology, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 409-426Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMark
Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought. Stuckenbruck, L., Reynolds, B. (eds.). Minneapolis Fortress PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Apocalypse and the Gospel of Mark
The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought. Reynolds, B. E., Stuckenbruck, L. T. (eds.). Minneapolis Fortress Press, pp. 53-78, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Creation, Christology and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham
Books and Reports: AnthologiesNew directions in the study of the New Testament
Theology, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 18-25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X14551679
Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham
Expository Times, vol. 125, no. 12, pp. 601Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesIncarnational Ontology and the Theology of Participation in Paul
‘In Christ’ in Paul: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation. Thate, M. J., Vanhoozer, K. J., Campbell, C. R. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 87–102, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Adam Octipartite/Septipartite
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 1. Bauckham, R., Davila, J. R., Panayotov, A. A. (eds.). Eerdmans Press, pp. 3-21, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUnion with Christ in the New Testament
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 364 pagesBooks and Reports: Books1 Enoch, Parables, Dating and Matthew
Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift. Bock, D. L., Charlesworth, J. H. (eds.). Bloomsbury, pp. 218-230, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Slavonic Texts of 2 Enoch
Brill. 330 pagesBooks and Reports: Books2 Enoch: manuscripts, recensions and original language
New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only. Orlov, A., Boccaccini, G., Zurawski, J. M. (eds.). Brill, pp. 83-102, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'The Atonement' and concepts of participation in the New Testament
Earliest Christianity: History, Literature, and Theology. Bird, M. (ed.). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 363-380, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPersonal salvation and rigorous obedience: the soteriology of 2 Enoch
This World and the World to Come: Soteriology in Early Judaism. Gurtner, D. (ed.). T & T Clark International, pp. 127-142, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview article: The Deliverance of God
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 150-161Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X11424852
Genesis and Christian Theology
Eerdmans Press, Grand Rapids. 360 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksParadise in the New Testament
Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views. Stroumsa, G. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-81, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760648.006
The Creation of Man in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch and Christian Tradition
XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), Ljubljana 16-20 July 2007, Congress Volume: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 133. Lemaire, A. (ed.). Brill, pp. 399-422, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe economic critique of Rome in Revelation and its reception in the early church fathers
Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception. Liebengood, K., Longenecker, B. W. (eds.). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., pp. 243-259, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDead gods and rebel angels: Religion and power in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours
Cultural Encounters, vol. 5, pp. 7-32Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNo Monuments in Heaven: Miroslav Volf and the Forgetting of Suffering
Bible in TransMission, pp. 10-12Contributions to Journals: Articles2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch
Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Brill, pp. 196–228Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004155824.i-294.32
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Creation, Eschatology and Ethics in 4QInstruction
Defining Identities : We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen. Popovic, M., García Martínez, F. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, pp. 217-246, 30 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004164147.i-283.59
Priestly Purity, Mosaic Torah and the Emergence of Enochic Judaism
Henoch, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 67-89Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRevealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
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