Dr Lydia Gore-Jones

Lydia Gore-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Biblical Studies) at St Andrew’s. Her doctoral thesis completed at Macquarie University dealt with two Jewish apocalyptic works as response to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in AD 70. She has taught subjects related to biblical history and Hebrew language at tertiary level. She had previously worked as radio journalist, translator, and teacher of English as a Second Language.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (Chinese University of Media, Beijing, 1993), Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (UNSW, 2002), Certificate of Languages (Macquarie, 2004), Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class) (Macquarie, 2012), Doctor of Philosophy (Macquarie, 2018), Graduate Certificate in Arts (SCD, 2019).

Subject area: Biblical Studies

Current research: Jewish and Christian pseudepigrapha and apocalyptic literature; early Christian thoughts in Jewish and Greco-Roman Context.

Select Publications:

“Orality, Literacy and Memory in the Composition and Transmission of Christian Ezra Apocalypses,” Journal of Early Christian History (8), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/2222582X.2018.1484670

“Angelic Mediators: Gabriel, Uriel and Remiel in Jewish Apocalypses,” in John T. Greene (ed.), Angels, A Messenger by Any Other Name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Traditions: 2016 Proceedings Volume of the Seminar in Biblical Characters in Three Traditions and in Literature, 55–76, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

With Stephen Llewelyn, “The Parting of the Ways,” in Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs (eds.), Into All the World: Emergent Christianity in Its Greco-Roman Context, 158–83, Eerdmans, 2017.

“The Unity and Coherence of 4 Ezra: Crisis, Response and Authorial Intention,” Journal for the Study of Judaism (47), 2016: 212–35.

“Animals, Humans, Angels and God: Animal metaphors in the historiography of the ‘Animal Apocalypse’ of 1 Enoch,” Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha (24), 2015: 268–87.