Professor Grant MacAskill

Professor Grant MacAskill
Professor Grant MacAskill
Professor Grant MacAskill

Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis

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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 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
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