Worcester College
Reader in the Old Testament
Phone: (2)78359
Email: susan.gillingham@theology.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Hebrew poetry; Hebrew prophecy; Israelite religion; biblical archaeology; biblical hermeneutics; the Psalms.

Literary, theological, liturgical, artistic and musical representations of the Psalms in Jewish and Christian reception history.  

Recent Publications:

2009 Encountering Burges: Reflections on the Art and Architecture of the Chapel at Worcester College, Oxford, London: Millennium Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906507-47-3.

2008 The Psalms through the Centuries, Volume I, Blackwell Bible Commentaries (eds. J.A. Sawyer, J. Kovacs, C. Rowland and D.M. Gunn), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing ISBN 978-0-631-21855-5. Paperback edition 2012, with new Preface and minor revisions, ISBN 978-0-470-67490-1.

2002 The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study, JSOT Sup 354, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 184-127-297-3.  

Selected articles:

2011 ‘A Ninth-Century Irish Bog Psalter and Reading the Psalms as “Three Fifties” ’ in Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon (eds. G. Khan and D. Lipton), VTS 149, Leiden: Brill, pp. 373-85. ISBN 97890042117300.

2011 ‘Reception History and Psalmody: An Introduction to its Aims and Methods with particular reference to Psalm 1’, Revue de Sciences et Religion. Faculté de Théologie Catholique, Université de Strasbourg 85/4 (2011) pp. 571-99.

2010 ‘New Wine and Old Wineskins. Three Approaches to Psalmody and Prophecy’ in Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel, Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (ed. J. Day), London: T & T Clark , pp. 370-90.

2010 ‘The Levitical Singers and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter’ in The Composition of the Book of Psalms Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 238 (ed. Erich Zenger), Leuven: Peeters Publishing, pp. 91-123.

2008 ‘Psalm 8 through the Looking Glass: Reception History of a Multi-Faceted Psalm’ in Diachronic and Synchronic: Reading the Psalms in Real Time: Proceedings of the Baylor Symposium on the Book of Psalms (eds. J.S. Burnett, W.H. Bellinger, Jr., and W.D Tucker, Jr.), London: T & T Clark, pp. 167-96.

2008 ‘Studies of the Psalms: Retrospect and Prospect’ in Expository Times 119, pp. 209-16.

2006 ‘Power and Powerlessness in the Psalms' in What is it that Scripture Says? Essays in Biblical Interpretation, Translation and Reception in Honour of Henry Wansbrough OSB (ed. P. McCosker), Library of New Testament Studies 316, London: T &T Clark International, pp. 25-49

Also:

2010 Co-host, with Professor Barton, of an international conference on the Psalms at Worcester College, Oxford: see www.oxford-psalms-conference.co.uk. An edition of the papers, to be published by Oxford University Press, is due to appear in early 2013.  

General Interests:

Travel, particularly related to my research interest in reception history and psalmody.

Gardening, particularly maintaining a Mediterranean-style garden in central Oxford.

Music and art, particularly in relation to the Psalms

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