Margaret Daly-Denton
New Testament Studies
Margaret Daly-Denton holds a BA and a BMus from the NUI, an MTheol (Liturgy) from SPC Maynooth, a PhD in Biblical Studies from TCD and her LTCL in organ performance. She is the author of two books and several scholarly articles on Christian worship and New Testament studies. Her early career was as a church musician with an academic and practical involvement in liturgy. An internationally published composer of liturgical music, she also served for over twenty years on ICEL (The International Committee on English in the Liturgy). More recently she undertook graduate studies at TCD, supervised by Prof. Sean Freyne, completing her Ph.D. on the early Christian reception of the psalms in 1997. Over the last fifteen years she has taught in Trinity College Dublin, The Church of Ireland Theological Institute, The Milltown Institute, The Kimmage Mission Institute, The Newman Institute in Ballina Co Mayo, St Patrick’s College Maynooth and The Mater Dei Institute. She has also worked as a writer and tutor for the distance learning programmes of The Priory Institute. She currently teaches on the MA in Ecology and Religion programme at All Hallows College, DCU. Her present research project is a reading of the Fourth Gospel from an ecological perspective, for The Earth Bible Commentary, a multi-volume publication forthcoming from Sheffield Phoenix Press.
Academic Degrees:
- Ph.D., University of Dublin, Trinity College
- BA and BMus ( NUI)
- MTheol (Liturgy) (SPC Maynooth)
- LTCL in organ performance
Research Interests:
New Testament Studies, Psalms, Liturgy, Sacred Music, Ecology and the Bible.
Teaching and Departmental responsibilities:
Undergraduate:
JF Introduction to the New Testament
Head of JF Year
Selected Publications:
Books:
- Psalm-Shaped Prayerfulness: A Guide to the Christian Reception of the Psalms. Dublin: Columba, 2010 & Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2011.
- David in the Fourth Gospel: The Johannine Reception of the Psalms. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Articles:
- “When in Our Music God is Glorified.” Pages 54-64 in The Word is Flesh and Blood: The Eucharist and Sacred Scripture. Festschrift for Wilfrid J. Harrington O.P. Edited by Vivian Boland O.P. and Thomas McCarthy O.P. Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2012.
- “Drinking the Water that Jesus Gives: A Johannine Eucharistic Symbol?” Pages 345-365 in A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne. Edited by Zuleika Rodgers, with Margaret Daly-Denton & Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
- “Early Christian Writers as Jewish Readers.” Review of Rabbinic Judaism 11, 2 (2008) 181–99.
- “Looking Beyond the Upper Room: Eucharistic Origins in Contemporary Research.” Search 31, 1 (2008) 3–15.
- “Water in the Eucharistic Cup: A Feature of the Eucharist in Johannine Trajectories through Early Christianity.” Irish Theological Quarterly 72 (2007) 356–370.
- “David the Psalmist, Inspired Prophet: Jewish Antecedents of a New Testament Datum.” Australian Biblical Review 52 (2004) 32–47.
- “The Psalms in John’s Gospel.” Pages 119-137 in The Psalms in the New Testament. Vol. 1 of the series, “The New Testament and the Scriptures of Israel,” ed. Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise, London & New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2004.
- “David in the New Testament.” Word and World XXIII, 4 (2003), 421–429.
- “La Priere Collective.” Pages 444-463 in Histoire du Christianisme: Tome 14, Anamnesis. Edited by F. Laplanche. Paris: Desclee, 2000.
- “Singing Hymns to Christ as to a God (Cf. Pliny Ep. X, 96).” Pages 277-292 in The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism: Papers from the St Andrew’s Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus. Edited by Carey C. Newman, James R. Davila and Gladys S. Lewis. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
- “Going beyond the Genially Open ‘Cf.’: Intertextual Reference to the Old Testament in the New.” Milltown Studies 44 (1999) 64–76.
- Psalmody: A Living Tradition of Worship: The 1997 Boyle-Bedell Lecture. Dublin: National Bible Society, 1999.
- “Psalmody as ‘Word of Christ’.” Pages 73-86 in Finding Voice to Give God Praise: Essays in the Many Languages of the Liturgy. Festschrift for Gilbert Ostdiek. Edited by Kathleen Hughes. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998.
- “Shades of David in the Johannine Presentation of Jesus.” PIBA 19 (1996) 9–47.
- Collaboration in the preparation of: The Psalter: A faithful and inclusive rendering from the Hebrew into contemporary English poetry, intended primarily for communal song and recitation (Translation offered for study and comment by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy). Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1994.
Contact:
- Room 5024
- Phone: 01 896 2585
- Email: dalydenm@tcd.ie
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