Dr Madison N. Pierce

Associate Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email

mnp1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

• DI3716 Readings in Early Christian Greek Texts (Co-Taught)
• DI3719 Bible through the Ages
• DI4615 New Testament Special Topic: Paul and Paganism (Co-Taught)
• DI5156 Hellenistic Greek Readings (Co-Taught)

Research areas

Dr. Pierce joined St Mary's School of Divinity in 2025 after teaching for several years in North America. She completed her PhD at Durham University under the supervision of Professor Francis Watson. Her thesis, Divine Discourse in the Epistle to the Hebrews, was published by Cambridge University Press in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (2020). She has also edited two collections of essays and authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes.

Her research interests are the Epistle to the Hebrews as well as the interpretation and reception of traditions in early Christian literature. Her current research is particularly focused on the author of Hebrews’s messiah language and analogies using Jewish rituals.

She is ordained in the Reformed Church in America as a Minister of Word and Sacrament. She is also a New Testament Editor at Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies and a co-host of The Two Cities podcast.

Selected publications

• Reading the Later New Testament as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Survey

  Reese, R. A. & Pierce, M. N., 2026, (In preparation) Baker Academic. (Reading Christian Scripture)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Hebrews

  Pierce, M. N., 2024, The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary. McCaulley, E., Ok, J. H., Padilla, O. & Peeler, A. L. B. (eds.). IVP Academic

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The world spoken through the Son: divine speech and creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews

  Pierce, M. N., 1 Sept 2023, In: Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 46, 1, p. 37–58

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Wisdom of Solomon in Hebrews 3:7–19

  Pierce, M. N., 2023, Reading Hebrews in Contex. Blackwell, B. C., Goodrich, J. K. & Maston, J. (eds.). Zondervan Academic

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Gospel Reading and Prosopological Exegesis in Luke-Acts

  Pierce, M. N., 2022, Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature. Pierce, M. N., Byers, A. J. & Gathercole, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature

  Pierce, M. N. (Editor), Byers, A. J. (Editor) & Gathercole, S. (Editor), 2022, Cambridge University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Precedents for Prosopological Exegesis and Features of Its Use in the Epistle to the Hebrews

  Pierce, M. N., 2021, Practicing Intertextuality: Jewish and Greco-Roman Exegetical Techniques in the New Testament. Lee, M. J. & Oropeza, B. J. (eds.). Cascade Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Divine Discourse in the Epistle to the Hebrews

  Pierce, M. N., 2020, Cambridge University Press. (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series; no. 178)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Testing and Being Tested in the Epistle to the Hebrews

  Pierce, M. N., 2020, Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts. Smith, D. L. & Stuckenbruck, L. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, (WUNT II; no. 519).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Trinity without Taxis? A Reconsideration of 1 Corinthians 11

  Pierce, M. N., 2019, Trinity without Hierarchy. Bird, M. F. & Harrower, S. (eds.). Kregel Publications

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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