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Staff profile of Dr. Eryl W Davies

Name:

Dr. Eryl Wynn Davies

Position:

Reader

Email:

Location:

M3

Phone:

01248 382080

Background:

I was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, from where I gained my PhD degree in 1978 for research on the prophet Isaiah. In 1979 I was appointed Lecturer in the School of Theology and promoted to Reader in 1998. I was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to study at the University of Heidelberg for 12 months in October 1983, and have since been a Visiting Lecturer at Serampore College, India (2002) and Baylor University, Waco, Texas (2004).

Modules taught:

  • History and Religion of Israel
  • Ethics of the Hebrew Bible
  • Biblical Hermeneutics

Responsibilities:

  • CAH Committee for Teaching and Learning
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies (Examination Officer, Disabilities Officer, Editor of School Handbook)

 

Research Interests:

My current research interests include feminist biblical theology and the ethics of the Hebrew Bible.

I am also a member of the editorial board of the Society for Old Testament Study Monograph Series.

Please enquire about my availability for doctoral (PhD) supervision

Recent publications:

Numbers: New Century Bible Commentary: London: Marshall Pickering; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans, 1995

Hosea a Micha, Caernarfon: Gwasg Pantycelyn, 2000 [A commentary in Welsh on the books of Hosea and Micah]

The Dissenting Reader: Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible, Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003

'Reader-response Criticism and Old Testament Studies' in Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales (ed R Pope), Leominster: Gracewing, 2003, 20-37

'The Bible in Ethics', in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (ed J Rogerson and J Lieu), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 732-53

'The Morally Dubious Passages of the Hebrew Bible: An Examination of Some Proposed Solutions', Currents  in Biblical Research, 2005, 197-228

'Y Beibl yn y Byd Cyfoes', Diwinyddiaeth, 56, 2005, 3-16 ('The Bible in the Modern World')