Biography:
After undergraduate studies at Oxford in Classics and French (BA), I gradually made the transition to the world of Biblical Studies. Following a two-year ministry apprenticeship, I completed a MTh in Biblical Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where I went on to obtain a PhD in New Testament and Christian Origins. My published doctoral thesis was a comparative project that explored how the apostle Paul and Seneca the Younger contributed to an ancient tradition of consolation. Alongside my teaching, I am seeking to develop my research on consolation and, more broadly, 'good emotions' in other parts of the New Testament and early Christian texts.
Faculty Research Area(s):
Biblical Studies: New Testament
Research Interests:
Pauline Literature; Consolation; Rhetoric; Emotions; Seneca; Ancient Philosophy and Ethics.
Links:
https://twitter.com/Alex_W_Muir
Publications & Research Outputs:
Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition: A Comparison, Supplements to Novum Testamentum 193 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
‘“Our πολίτευμα Belongs in Heaven” (Phil 3:20)’, Novum Testamentum 64, 2 (2022): 249-266, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10011
