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Illustration depicting a woman wearing a headscarf with the caption #SheToo

21 May 2019

SIIBS members featured on The Bible Society's new #SheToo podcast series

Dr Meredith Warren and Dr Katie Edwards have contributed interviews to The Bible Society's new #SheToo podcast series, exploring some of the biblical texts that include violence against women.

The back of the Pope's head an shoulders

7 June 2019

Dr Meredith Warren interviewed by The Guardian about updates to the Lord's prayer

Dr Meredith Warren was interviewed by The Guardian and by the BBC World Service about the Pope's updates to the Lord's Prayer. She has also previously written in detail about this subject for The Conversation.

The Guardian

Portrait photo/ head shot of Dr Meredith Warren

21 May 2019

Dr Meredith Warren publishes "Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature"

Meredith Warren's latest book 'Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature' has been published.

Painting depicting sexual violence in the Bible

14 May 2019

The Shiloh Project awarded GCRF grant

The Shiloh Project has won a GCRF grant to continue their work on the Bible and sexual violence in Botswana and Ghana. Find out more about the Shiloh Project on their blog.

The Shiloh Project blog

Portrait photo/ head shot of Dr Casey Strine

Back Where You Came From: Dr Casey Strine partners with Artwalk and Wakefield Cathedral

SIIBS member Dr Casey Strine is collaborating with Wakefield Cathedral and Artwalk Wakefield throughout March. The Back Where You Came From project engaged eight Sheffield residents with past or present experience of seeking sanctuary through reading the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph from Genesis as a resource to contemplate experiences of forced migration in the ancient world and today.

28 March 2019 | Wakefield Cathedral website

Meredith Warren's publishes article in the journal 'Religions'

Dr Meredith Warren's latest article, "The Cup of God’s Wrath: Libation and Early Christian Meal Practice in Revelation" published in the journal 'Religions', discusses what libation in Revelation might tell us about early church practices in Asia Minor.

19 February 2019 | Religions journal

Garden and "Wilderness": an ecocritical exploration of Gen 2:4B–3:24

In this study written for the journal "The Bible and Critical Theory", Robin adapts a methodology from the field of ecocriticism to explore the physical world depicted in Gen. 2:4b–3:24.

6 November 2018 | The Bible and Critical Theory journal

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PhD researcher Emily Marlow has article featured in PG Gamer Magazine

SIIBS PhD student Emily Marlow has an article in the forthcoming edition of PC Gamer Magazine, on her thesis topic of religious themes and tropes in modern video games.

3 September 2018 | PC Gamer

What the Bible’s Romans 13 says about asylum – and what Jeff Sessions omitted

Read Dr Casey Strine's latest article for The Conversation, regarding US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' defence of America's controversial new immigration policy.

19 June 2018 | The Conversation

Several members of SIIBS have been nominated in the 2018 Students' Union Academic Awards

The annual Academic Awards, run by the Students' Union, celebrates those who have enhanced Academic Life at the University of Sheffield to create an excellent educational experience for all our students.

10 April 2018

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Finding Jesus in video games

PhD researcher Emily Marlow writes about her research Jesus and Christ-figures within video games for the History Matters blog.

20 December 2017

An ox, an ass … a dragon? Sorry, there were no animals in the Bible’s nativity scene

In Dr Meredith Warren's latest article for The Conversation, she addresses the seasonal topic of the Nativity scene - specifically the traditional inclusion of animals.

15 December 2017 | The Conversation

Three suasage rolls on wooden chopping board

The Greggs sausage roll debate is quite appropriate - Jesus did describe himself as meat

Read Dr Meredith Warren's article in i newspaper on the story of the moment - Greggs the bakers' depiction of the Nativity scene - and how we might interpret both the image and the outrage.

17 November 2017 | i newspaper

Why ‘Judeo-Christian values’ are a dog-whistle myth peddled by the far right

Read Dr Meredith Warren's article on the troublesome reappearance of the phrase 'Judeo-Christian values', published on The Conversation.

7 November 2017 | The Conversation