Professor Grant MacAskill

Professor Grant MacAskill
Professor Grant MacAskill
Professor Grant MacAskill

Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis

About
Email Address
grant.macaskill@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273039
Office Address

Room KCF3, King's College,

University of Aberdeen,

AB24 3UB

grant.macaskill@abdn.ac.uk

School/Department
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

Biography

Grant Macaskill (Ph.D, Uni. St Andrews, 2005) was appointed to the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis in 2015. Prior to this, he had taught as Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His work engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism, an identification that underlies research interested in both the historical dimensions of the New Testament and its significance to contemporary theological and ethical issues. He has written widely on the Enoch traditions in early Judaism and later Christianity and on participatory theologies, especially as these relate to the idea of "union with Christ." In theological ethics and practical theology, he has written on the implications of union with Christ for Christian identity and on the relevance of Bible and theology to thinking about autism. He is the co-director of the Centre for Autism and Theology.

Among his works, Professor Macaskill is the author of Union with Christ in the New Testament (Oxford University Press, 2013), The New Testament and Intellectual Humility (Oxford University Press, 2019), Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology and Community (Baylor, 2019) and Living in Union with Christ (Baker, 2019), which is also now available in Portuguese as Vivendo em união com Cristo: o evangelho de Paulo e a identidade moral crista, trans. Breno Nunes de Oliveira Seabra (Editoria Fiel, 2021).

Professor Macaskill is joint editor with Annette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard) of the Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha series, published by Brill (Boston/Leiden) and is on the editorial board of New Testament Studies.

In 2021, he was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, for his project, "The Entangled Enoch: Comparing the Uniquely Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch Texts and Locating Them in Early Jewish and Christian Traditions." 

External Memberships

Member, Society for the Study of the New Testament (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas), elected 2020.

Series Editor (with Annette Yoshiko Reed), Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Member of Editorial Boards:

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Journal of Theological Interpretation

New Testament Studies

 

Consulting Editor:

Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies. 10 Volumes. Zondervan (HarperCollins). New Series.

 

Prizes and Awards

At University of Aberdeen:

 

British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

The Entangled Enoch: Comparing the Uniquely Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch Texts and Locating Them in Early Jewish and Christian Traditions

Value: £131,002. Awarded 2021. 

 

Previously (University of St Andrews):

 

The Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility Project, funded by John Templeton Foundation and Saint Louis University.

Intellectual Humility and the New Testament

Value: $86,450. Awarded 2014 to fund 1 year of research leave.

 

Published as The New Testament and Intellectual Humility (Oxford University Press, 2019)

 

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.                                                    

A Critical Edition of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch.                                                     

Value : £96, 000 (Actual £62,744, due to early completion). Awarded in 2005.

 

Published as The Slavonic Texts of 2 Enoch. (Studia Judaeoslavica 6. Leiden: Brill, 2013)

 

Publications

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  • The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity

    Macaskill, G.
    Vol. SVTP 28, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
    Books and Reports: Books
  • United by Neurodiversity: Postgraduate Research in a Neurodiverse Context

    Van Ommen, A. L., Cundill, H. J., Waldock, K. E., Tryfona, C., Macaskill, G., Barber, C. F., Douglas, S. H., Fowler, B. W., Gibbins, H., Lasch, I., Brock, B.
    Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 537-551
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Israel’s Scriptures in Early Jewish Literature

    Macaskill, G.
    Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. Henze, M., Lincicum, D. (eds.). Eerdmans Press, pp. 109–137, 38 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The Idolatrous Self and the Eikon: The Possibility of True Worship

    Macaskill, G.
    The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology. Dugan, K., Ziegler, P. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 84–103, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The Bible, Autism and Other Profound Developmental Conditions: Regulating Hermeneutics

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 414-438
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Autism and Biblical Studies: Establishing and Extending the Field beyond Preliminary Reflection

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 388-411
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Introduction: Beyond Exegesis—Biblical Studies and the Phenomena of Disability

    Brock, B., Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Disability and Religion, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 361-362
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • Dynamic Reciprocity and Ontological Affinity in the Pauline Account of Solidarity

    Macaskill, G.
    International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 18-28
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
  • Identifications, Articulations and Proportions in Practical Theological Interpretation

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Theological Interpretation, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-15
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Joy and Autism: Biblical, Theological and Practical Perspectives

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 268-280
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Meteorology and metrology: Evaluating parallels in the Ethiopic Parables of Enoch and 2 (Slavonic) Enoch

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 79-99
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community

    Macaskill, G.
    Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas. 239 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Living in Union with Christ: Paul's Gospel and Christian Moral Identity

    MacAskill, G.
    Baker Academic
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Playing God or Participating in God? What Considerations Might the New Testament Bring to the Ethics of the Biotechnological Future?

    MacAskill, G.
    Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 152-164
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
  • The New Testament and Intellectual Humility

    MacAskill, G.
    Oxford University Press, Oxford. 270 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Christian Scriptures and the Formation of Intellectual Humility

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal of Psychology and Theology, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 243-252
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
  • Name Christology, Divine Aseity and the I Am Sayings in the Fourth Gospel

    MacAskill, G.
    Journal of Theological Interpretation, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 217-241
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Adam Traditions and the Destruction of Ymir in the Eddas

    Macaskill, G.
    The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone. DiTommaso, L., Henze, M., Adler, W. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 653-669, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Way the One God Works: Covenant and Ethics in 1 Corinthians

    MacAskill, G.
    One God, One People, One Future: Essays in Honour of N.T. Wright. Dunne, J., Lewellyn, E. (eds.). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), pp. 112–125, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders and the New Testament: Preliminary Reflections

    MacAskill, G.
    Journal of Disability & Religion, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 15-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • History, providence and the apocalyptic Paul

    Macaskill, G.
    Scottish Journal of Theology, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 409-426
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Mark

    MacAskill, G.
    Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought. Stuckenbruck, L., Reynolds, B. (eds.). Minneapolis Fortress Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Apocalypse and the Gospel of Mark

    Macaskill, G.
    The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought. Reynolds, B. E., Stuckenbruck, L. T. (eds.). Minneapolis Fortress Press, pp. 53-78, 26 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Creation, Christology and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham

    Gurtner, D. M. (ed.), MacAskill, G. (ed.), Pennington, J. T. (ed.)
    Books and Reports: Anthologies
  • New directions in the study of the New Testament

    Macaskill, G.
    Theology, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 18-25
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham

    Macaskill, G.
    Expository Times, vol. 125, no. 12, pp. 601
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Incarnational Ontology and the Theology of Participation in Paul

    MacAskill, G.
    ‘In Christ’ in Paul: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation. Thate, M. J., Vanhoozer, K. J., Campbell, C. R. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 87–102, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Adam Octipartite/Septipartite

    Macaskill, G.
    Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 1. Bauckham, R., Davila, J. R., Panayotov, A. A. (eds.). Eerdmans Press, pp. 3-21, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Union with Christ in the New Testament

    Macaskill, G.
    Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 364 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • 1 Enoch, Parables, Dating and Matthew

    Macaskill, G.
    Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift. Bock, D. L., Charlesworth, J. H. (eds.). Bloomsbury, pp. 218-230, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Slavonic Texts of 2 Enoch

    Macaskill, G.
    Brill. 330 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • 2 Enoch: manuscripts, recensions and original language

    Macaskill, G.
    New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only. Orlov, A., Boccaccini, G., Zurawski, J. M. (eds.). Brill, pp. 83-102, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • 'The Atonement' and concepts of participation in the New Testament

    Macaskill, G.
    Earliest Christianity: History, Literature, and Theology. Bird, M. (ed.). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 363-380, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Personal salvation and rigorous obedience: the soteriology of 2 Enoch

    Macaskill, G.
    This World and the World to Come: Soteriology in Early Judaism. Gurtner, D. (ed.). T & T Clark International, pp. 127-142, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Review article: The Deliverance of God

    Macaskill, G.
    Journal for the Study of the New Testament, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 150-161
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Genesis and Christian Theology

    MacDonald, N. (ed.), Elliott, M. W. (ed.), Macaskill, G. (ed.)
    Eerdmans Press, Grand Rapids. 360 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Paradise in the New Testament

    Macaskill, G.
    Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views. Stroumsa, G. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-81, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Creation of Man in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch and Christian Tradition

    Macaskill, G.
    XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), Ljubljana 16-20 July 2007, Congress Volume: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 133. Lemaire, A. (ed.). Brill, pp. 399-422, 24 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The economic critique of Rome in Revelation and its reception in the early church fathers

    Macaskill, G.
    Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception. Liebengood, K., Longenecker, B. W. (eds.). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., pp. 243-259, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Dead gods and rebel angels: Religion and power in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours

    Macaskill, G.
    Cultural Encounters, vol. 5, pp. 7-32
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • No Monuments in Heaven: Miroslav Volf and the Forgetting of Suffering

    Macaskill, G.
    Bible in TransMission, pp. 10-12
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Creation, Eschatology and Ethics in 4QInstruction

    Macaskill, G.
    Defining Identities : We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen. Popovic, M., García Martínez, F. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, pp. 217-246, 30 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Priestly Purity, Mosaic Torah and the Emergence of Enochic Judaism

    Macaskill, G.
    Henoch, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 67-89
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

    Macaskill, G.
    Brill Academic Publishers
    Books and Reports: Books

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