Give Ear to my Cry: Exploring Prayer and the Bible

A Colloquium of the Loyola Institute (TCD), Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies (TCD) and the Clough School of Theology and Ministry (BC)

Contributors:

Brad Anderson is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University.  His research focuses on the use and interpretation of the Torah and prophets, including the recently published Hosea, Joel, and Obadiah Through the Centuries (Wiley Blackwell 2024). 

Daniele Pevarello is Assistant Professor in Early Christianity in the School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His published work focuses on the cultural history of Early Christianity with particular emphasis on Christian reception of Graeco-Roman literature and thought, wisdom traditions in Jewish and Christian antiquity, and early Christian ascetic practices, as in the monograph The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Asceticism (Mohr Siebeck 2013). 

David J. Shepherd is Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin and the Loyola Institute and current director of the Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies.  He is the author of various works focusing on the Hebrew Bible in its literary context, ancient versions and its reception in the visual and performing arts, including most recently, King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt (OUP, 2023).

Jaime L. Waters is Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. She is the author of works focused on prophetic literature and ecological and feminist readings of the Bible including What Does the Bible Say About Animals? (New City Press, 2022) and Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel (Fortress Press, 2015).

Benjamin Wold is Professor in Ancient Judaism and Christianity in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a variety of works focusing on the late Second Temple Period and nascent Christianity. His most recent monograph explores “wisdom” in the textual cultures of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Christian literature, Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament (CUP, 2023).

Jeremy Corley is Lecturer in Sacred Scripture at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland. His main research area is deuterocanonical literature, especially Ben Sira. His monograph, Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship (Brown Judaic Studies, 2nd ed., 2020) is available as an Open Access volume. With Bradley C. Gregory, he has just completed a volume for the ICC series, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Sirach 1:1–11:6 (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming).

Andrew R. Davis is Ordinary Professor of Old Testament at the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry.  He is the author of several monographs, including most recently, The Book of Amos and Its Audiences: Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric (CUP, 2023).  He is currently working on an introductory textbook (Reading the Old Testament, Paulist Press) and several projects related to the textual pluriformity of biblical traditions.

Miriam De Cock is Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity in the School of Theology, Philosophy and Music at Dublin City University. She has published primarily on early Christian biblical exegesis and exegetical culture. She is also increasingly interested in early Christian ideas about ‘home’ and travel, and is working on a short book that considers these themes (CUP, under contract).

Neil J. Morrison is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Trinity College Dublin and an Associate Lecturer at Belfast School of Theology. He is interested in methods of studying the HB/OT, the ethics of biblical narratives, and hermeneutics. His PhD thesis Retribution in Chronicles: Ideology and Reality has recently been published by Mohr Siebeck.

Angela Kim Harkins is Professor of New Testament / Professor Ordinaria at Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry. She is the author of three books, co-editor of 6 volumes, and the author of more than 40 journal articles and scholarly essays. Her publications engage the topics of prayers, apocalypticism, and religious experience in ancient Jewish and early Christian texts. Professor Harkins currently serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Ancient Judaism (Brill).

Katie M. Heffelfinger is Deputy Director and Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Hermeneutics at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. Her research focusses on the poetics of exilic and post exilic Isaiah and includes, most recently, Isaiah 40-66 (New Cambridge Bible Commentary, 2024).

Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. is Dean and Professor of Theology at Boston College’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry.  His writing and research on early Christianity, religious belief and Augustine has appeared in various fora, including Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Theological Studies, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.