Staff Profile of Dr Catrin Williams

Name:

Dr Catrin Williams

Position:

Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies

Email:

catrin.williams@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

T22 Tower, Main Arts Building

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 383810

Background:

After graduating from Bangor in 1985 with a BA in Biblical Studies, I spent three years working for a PhD at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and was also awarded a scholarship to study for six months at the University of Tübingen. In 1988 I was appointed to a lectureship in New Testament Studies at Bangor and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2000. After spending close to two years as University Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Tutorial Fellow in Theology at Keble College, University of Oxford, I returned to Bangor to my current post in the summer of 2006.
Since 2004 I have served on the editorial board of the Library of New Testament Studies and, since 2006, on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Modules taught:

Introduction to the New Testament
Women in Judaism and Early Christianity
The Gospel of John
The Theology of Paul

Responsibilities:

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Deputy Head of the College of Arts and Humanities (Admissions and Welsh-medium Issues)
Member of the University’s Library and IT Services Task Group

Research Interests:

My principal research interests are the Gospel of John, and the interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures in late Second Temple Judaism, post-biblical Judaism (especially targumic and rabbinic traditions) and in New Testament texts. I am currently writing a monograph on the reception of Isaiah in the Gospel of John.

Please enquire about my availability for doctoral (PhD) supervision

Selected Publications

“Seeing the Glory: The Reception of Isaiah’s Call-Vision in John 12:41’, Judaism, Jewish Identities and the Gospel Tradition, ed. J.G. Crossley, London: Equinox Publishing, 2008 (in press)
Biblical Perspectives on Ethnic Identity and National Identity, Geneva: WCC Publications, forthcoming 2008 (co-editor, and author of chapter, ‘Crossing Boundaries with “the Greeks”’)
‘Inspecting an Aerial Photograph of John’s Engagement with Sources’, What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies, ed. T. Thatcher, Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007, 83-6
‘Isaiah and Johannine Christology’, “As Those Who Are Taught”: The Reception of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL, eds. P. K. Tull & C.M. McGinnis, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2006, 107-24
‘Isaiah in John’s Gospel’, Isaiah in the New Testament, eds. S. Moyise & M.J.J. Menken, London/New York: T & T Clark International, 2005, 101-16
I am He: The Interpretation of ’Anî Hû’ in Jewish and Early Christian Literature, WUNT II: 113, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000
Llyfr Datguddiad, Caernarfon: Gwasg Pantycelyn, 2002 [a commentary in Welsh on the Book of Revelation)
‘Interpretations of the Identity and Role of Jesus’, The Biblical World, ed. J. Barton, London: Routledge, 2002, Vol. II: 332-56
‘“I Am” or “I Am He”? Self-Declaratory Pronouncements in the Fourth Gospel and Rabbinic Tradition’, Jesus in Johannine Tradition, eds. R.T. Fortna and T. Thatcher, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, 343-52