Affiliated lecturers

Dr Hilary Marlow

Affiliated Old Testament Lecturer

Courses taught this academic year

• A2 One God? Hearing the Old Testament (Lent)
• B1a Intermediate Hebrew (Lent)
• B2 The Exilic Age (Michaelmas)
• C2 Prophets, Poets, Storytellers and Sages (Michaelmas)

Current research interests

• The natural world in the Old Testament.
• Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
• Old Testament prophetic texts
• Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings

Selected recent publications

• Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009);
• “Justice for Whom? Social and Environmental Ethics and the Hebrew Prophets” in Ethical and Unethical Behaviour in the Old Testament. Ed. Katharine Dell (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, forthcoming 2010);
• “The Other Prophet! The Voice of the Earth in the Book of Amos” in Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics. Eds. Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger, (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008);
• “The Lament over the River Nile – a Study of Isaiah 19:5-10” (Vetus Testamentum 57 (2007) pp. 229-242).

Additional information and responsibilities

• Director of Studies, St Catharine’s College (2009-11)
• Associate of Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
• Committee member, Society for Old Testament Study
• Editorial Committee, Grove Books Biblical Series

Contact details

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9BS

Tel.: (+44) 01223 763093
Fax: (+44) 01223 763003

Email: hm309@cam.ac.uk