During this year’s General Meeting, the President read out the names of BNTS members who had successfully completed their PhD since the last meeting, and the Society applauded their success.
Congratulations to the following:
- Amy White, Trinity College Bristol, “Shepherd My Sheep”: A Conceptual Blending Analysis of the Leader-as-Shepherd Metaphor in John’s Gospel
- Chris Norden, Bristol Baptist College/University of Aberdeen, ‘Weighing his Options: An Assessment of Paul’s Decision-Making in Acts’.
- Paul Bebout, London School of Theology/Middlesex University, ‘The founder identity of Jesus in Hebrews: an examination of Jesus as founder of the Christ-movement’
- Duane McCrory, University of Birmingham, ‘A Text-Critical Analysis of the Arabic Traditions of the Epistle to the Romans’
- George Oliver, King’s College London, ‘The Production of Space in the Acts of Thomas’
- Jonathan Berglund, University of Aberdeen, ‘Bound for the Gentiles: The Symbolic Logic of Paul’s Captivity in Ephesians 3’
- Axolile Ntsika Mandaba Qina, Edinburgh University, ‘The Dilemmas of Jesus’s Sacrificial Death on a Roman Cross: Towards a Xhosa Christian Hermeneutic for Xhosa Indigenous Customs of Animal Sacrifice’
- J. Tyler Brown, University of Oxford, ‘The Sign of Jonah in Matthew and Luke-Acts’
Furthermore, Zachary Skarka has been awarded an aegrotat doctoral degree at the University of Birmingham, which his wife, Joy Pedrow Skarka, came to collect. Zachary’s thesis title was ‘The Text and Transmission of Colossians.’