Grant Macaskill

Lecturer in New Testament

Dr Macaskill lectures in New Testament, previously having been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow whilst preparing a critical edition of the Slavonic text of 2 Enoch.

Teaching

His teaching areas include:

• Jesus and the Gospels (sub-Honours)
• Biblical Exegesis (Honours)
• The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Honours)
• The Book of Revelation (Honours and Postgraduate)
• Enochic Judaism (Postgraduate)
• Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Postgraduate)

Current Areas of Doctoral Supervision

• Union with Christ and Ethics in Ephesians.
• The tradition of Mark 10:45/Matt 20:28: reception and textual matrix in Early Christianity.
• Faith and Works in James.
• Household codes in 1 Peter.

Education

Ph.D. University of St Andrews, 2005

Dip. Th. Free Church College, Edinburgh, 1998

B.Sc. University of Glasgow, 1994

Publications

Monographs

• Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. JSJSupp 115 (Series editor: John J. Collins) Brill: Leiden, 2007.

Articles

• 'Creation, Eschatology and Ethics in 4QInstruction' in Defining Identities : We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls : Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen, edited by Florentino García Martínez and Mladen Popovi'. Leiden: Brill, 2008
• 'Enoch, Second Book of.' New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, volume 2. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.
• 'No Monuments in Heaven: Miroslav Volf and the Forgetting of Suffering.' Bible in TransMisssion: A Forum for Change in Church and Culture, Spring 2007.
• 'Priestly Purity, Mosaic Torah and the Emergence of Enochic Judaism.' Henoch 29 (2007)
• 'Matthew 6: 19-34: The Kingdom, the World and the Ethics of Anxiety.' in The Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology.  23/1, 2005.

Reviews

• One Teacher: Jesus' Teaching Role in Matthew's Gospel Report by John Yueh-Han Yieh (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004). Reviewed in RBL 04 (2005). Review available online
• The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus: launch volume. Edited by Robert Webb (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2003). Reviewed in Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 21/2 (2003).
• Communities of the Last Days: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, by C. Marvin Pate (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000). Reviewed in Themelios 27 (2002).>
• The Origins of the Evil Spirits, by Archie T. Wright, forthcoming in RBL.

Forthcoming articles/articles in press

• 'The Creation of Man in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch and Christian Tradition,' forthcoming in XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), Ljubljana 16-20 July 2007, Congress Volume, edited by André Lemaire (Leiden: Brill, 2008).
• 'The Economic Critique of Rome in Revelation and its Reception in the Early Church Fathers,' forthcoming in B.W. Longenecker and K. Liebengood, Economic Dimensions of Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009).
• 'Adam Octipartite: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes,' forthcoming in More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by R.J. Bauckham, J.R. Davila and A. A. Panayotov (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009).
• 'The Quest for the Historical Jesus,' in New Dictionary of Theology (Revised), edited by Stephen Carter (Leicester: IVP, 2009).

Works in progress

• The Texts of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: Slavonic Texts with Critical Listing of Variants. (Monograph. Anticipated publication 2009/2010).
• 'Dead Gods and Rebel Angels: Polemics and Power in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Hal Duncan's Book of All Hours.' (Article. Under submission. Anticipated publication 2008/2009).
• Union with Christ in the New Testament. (Monograph. Anticipated publication, 2012).