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Dr Katherine Hockey

Dr Katherine Hockey
Dr Katherine Hockey
Dr Katherine Hockey

PhD, FHEA

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
katherine.hockey@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

(KCS12) King's College

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen

AB24 3UB

School/Department
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

Biography

Katherine joined the school of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History in September 2017 as the Kirby Laing Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament Studies. In August 2019 she became Lecturer in New Testament. Before moving to Aberdeen, between 2015-2017, she worked with Prof David Horrell at the University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on his AHRC (UK) funded project entitled ‘Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in Early Christian and Jewish Identities: A Critical Examination of Ancient Sources and Modern Scholarship’. Katherine gained her PhD in 2016 from Durham University under the supervision of Prof John Barclay. Her AHRC (UK) funded thesis utilised ancient Greco-Roman philosophy and rhetoric along with developments in the field of modern emotion studies to explore the role of emotions in the rhetorical discourse of 1 Peter. It has been published by Cambridge University Press as The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Katherine is Co-convenor with Dr Katie Cross of Sophia: DRS Women's Network. 

Sophia is a new initiative that seeks to create a supportive environment for female students and staff within Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

See https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/divinity-religious-studies/sophia-drs-womens-network-1657.php

External Memberships

Member of the Steering Committee of the Bible and Emotion Group at the Society of Biblical Literature.

Co-Chair of the Later Epistles Seminar of the British New Testament Society.

 

Latest Publications

  • Resilience in 1 Peter: Faithfulness and Hope in the Face of Adversity

    Hockey, K.
    Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights. White, N. H., Cook, C. C. H. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 98-110, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter

    Hockey, K. M.
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 310 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation

    Hockey, K. M. (ed.), Horrell, D. G. (ed.)
    Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York
    Books and Reports: Books

  • 1 Peter 4.16: Shame, Emotion and Christian Self-Perception

    Hockey, K. M.
    Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews. Hockey, K. M., Pierce, M. N., Watson, F. (eds.). Bloomsbury T&T Clark, pp. 27-40
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews

    Hockey, K. M. (ed.), Pierce, M. N. (ed.), Watson, F. (ed.)
    Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York. 224 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

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Research

Research Overview

Katherine is interested, more broadly, in the formation and shaping of Early Christian identity. More specifically this includes interest in:

  • 1 Peter and the Catholic Epistles
  • Emotion Studies and the New Testament
  • Ancient philosophy and ethics (esp. Stoicism)
  • Rhetoric and the New Testament
  • Christian identity construction and maintenance
  • Social/Group and inter-group dimensions of texts
  • Pneumatology and Charismatic readings

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Divinity.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Research Specialisms

  • Biblical Studies

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

Katherine continues to extend her work on emotions in the New Testament by exploring how developments in inter-group emotion theory can help us explore in greater detail and depth the emotions of love and hate in New Testament texts. Her research aims to move beyond simply categorising behaviour between ingroups and outgroups as prejudicial, or positive or negative, towards a more fine-grained examination of the range of emotional dispositions between people groups represented in the New Testament texts. This in turn will shed new light on how the New Testament shapes both self and other identity and also behaviour.

Collaborations

Katherine is currently collaborating with Ari Mermelstein (Yeshiva University) on the T & T Clark Handbook to the Bible and Emotion. This Handbook is bringing together for the first time in a comprehensive way international experts on the field of the Bible and Emotion.

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Divinity.

Katherine is open to supervising various topics related to the New Testament including  identity construction and maintenance, emotion, social/group aspects, conceptual relationships to Greco-Roman philosophy and Ethics (esp. Stoicism), rhetorical approaches, and charismatic readings. I have particular expertise in supervising projects that move beyond the boundaries typical of New Testament Studies and involve interdisciplinary dimensions.  

Katherine is currently supervising a range of projects including:

Yi Sang Chan - 'The Emotion of Shame and Moral Transformation for the People of God in the Book of First Corinthians'

Cynthia Cheshire - 'Identity Beyond Null and Negation: Gal 3:28, 1 Cor 12:13, and Col 3:11 in Intersectional Perspective'

Lindsey Croston - 'Participation and Identification: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Pauline Community Formation in 1 Corinthians & Philippians'

Samuel Grottenberg - 'Literary Theory, Jesus Tradition, and the Place of the Catholic Epistles in Early Christianity'

Matthew Meyer - 'Power and Emotion in Paul’s letter to the Philippians'

Payton Miller - 'The Disabled Body: Accessing the Divine in the Cult in Leviticus and Hebrews'

Caroline Smiley - 'The Lukan Mary: A Study in Characterisation'

Geraldine Timmerberg - 'Narrative, Mind, and Meaning: Re-Developing a Literary Approach to the New Testament with Special Attention to Luke-Acts'

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  • Resilience in 1 Peter: Faithfulness and Hope in the Face of Adversity

    Hockey, K.
    Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights. White, N. H., Cook, C. C. H. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 98-110, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter

    Hockey, K. M.
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 310 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation

    Hockey, K. M. (ed.), Horrell, D. G. (ed.)
    Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York
    Books and Reports: Books

  • 1 Peter 4.16: Shame, Emotion and Christian Self-Perception

    Hockey, K. M.
    Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews. Hockey, K. M., Pierce, M. N., Watson, F. (eds.). Bloomsbury T&T Clark, pp. 27-40
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews

    Hockey, K. M. (ed.), Pierce, M. N. (ed.), Watson, F. (ed.)
    Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York. 224 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Missing Emotion: The Absence of Anger and the Promotion of Nonretaliation in 1 Peter

    Hockey, K. M.
    Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions: Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature. Spencer, F. S. (ed.). SBL Press, pp. 331-353, 23 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

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