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The School of Religions and Theology is a centre of research in Near Eastern, Jewish and Biblical Studies, Christian Theology and Ethics and Islamic Studies. Members of staff specialize in the following areas of research:
Near Eastern, Jewish and Biblical Studies
Prof. Anne Fitzpatrick-Mc Kinley
- Near Eastern Religion
- The history and development of Torah with special interest in the question of Jewish Identities
- General Israelite history and religion
- The Jews of Egypt from the Persian to Roman periods
- The Persian period and the developments of the traditions about Ezra and Nehemiah
- Israelite origins and early history
- Method in historical reconstruction
- Sociological and psychoanalytic theory and history
- Pentateuchal criticism
- Deuteronomistic History
- Israel and Egypt
- Reception of Hellenistic Judaism
- Flavius Josephus
- Judaean Society in the Roman Period
- The social world of early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism
- Apocalyptic and Wisdom literature
- Literature of Qumran
- Literary allusions to Exodus in the Apocalypse of John
Theology and Ethics
- The conditions of theology in modernity (e.g., Friedrich Schleiermacher)
- The foundations of philosophical and theological ethics (e.g., Jürgen Habermas' 'discourse ethic' and Paul Ricoeur's 'hermeneutics')
- The theory of Christian praxis
- The conditions for faith in late modernity (e.g. moral and religious identity)
- Applied ethics (biomedical and anthropological issues)
- Public theology, law, religion and values
- The history of theology
- Ethics
- Systematic theology
Islamic Studies
- Islam and Gender
- Islam and Human Rights
Contact: jwelch@tcd.ie | Last updated: Sep 20 2011 | Back to top