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James Harding imageAssociate Professor
BA(Manchester), MA, PCHE, PhD(Sheffield)

Room 4S4, Arts Building
Tel +64 3 479 5392
Email james.harding@otago.ac.nz

James Harding is Associate Professor of Hebrew/Old Testament Studies. He teaches biblical texts in Hebrew (and Aramaic), as well as papers on the prophetical literature, Second Temple Judaism, biblical approaches to human suffering and the justice of God, and the book of Job. His main research interests include the book of Job and how the biblical texts became Scripture for early Jewish and Christian communities.

Teaching

  • BIBS 213 Hebrew Old Testament Exegesis 2
  • BIBS 313 Hebrew Old Testament Exegesis 3
  • BIBS 411 Hebrew Old Testament Exegesis (Advanced)
  • BIBS 211 God, Land, and Exile in the Hebrew Prophets
  • BIBS 311 God, Land, and Exile in the Hebrew Prophets (Advanced)
  • BIBS 218 Judaism in the Time of Jesus
  • BIBS 318 Judaism in the Time of Jesus (Advanced)
  • BIBS 317 God, Suffering, and Justice in the Hebrew Bible
  • BIBS 413 God, Suffering, and Justice in the Hebrew Bible (Advanced)
  • BIBS 412 Special Topic: The Book of Job

Current research interests

  • The book of Job
  • Scripture in the Late Second Temple period

Preferred areas of supervision

I am happy to consider supervising Masters or Doctoral projects on any aspect of the study of the Hebrew Bible.

Completed research students

  • Clare Knowles, Interpreting Isaiah from Isaiah: Intratextual Translation in Old Greek Isaiah (PhD, 2022)
  • Rebecca Burgess, A Christian Reading of Psalm 119: An Exploration of Torah as God’s Self-Revelation using a Trinitarian Hermeneutic (PhD, 2017)
  • Kirsten Dawson  Violence in the Book of Job (PhD, 2013)
  • Deane Galbraith  Manufacturing Judean Myth: The Spy Narrative in Numbers 13-14 as Rewritten Tradition (PhD, 2013)
  • Miriam Bier  “Perhaps there is Hope”: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest (PhD, 2012)
  • Philip Church  Wilderness Tabernacle and Eschatological Temple: A Study in Temple Symbolism in Hebrews in the Light of Attitudes to the Temple in the Literature of Middle Judaism (PhD, 2012)
  • Gillian Townsley  The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Cor 11.2-16 (PhD, 2011)
  • Don Moffat Ezra's Social Drama: The Mixed Marriage Controversy in Ezra 9 and 10 as Social Conflict (PhD 2010)

Publications

Harding, J. (2024, July). Lists of (un)revealed things in the book of Job. Verbal presentation at the Worlds Above and Below Interdisciplinary Conference, [Hybrid]. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Harding, J. E. (2024). The wisdom of the ostrich (Job 39.13-18). In R. J. Myles, C. Blyth & E. Colgan (Eds.), Habitats of the basileia: Essays in honour of Elaine M. Wainwright. (pp. 112-123). Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press. Chapter in Book - Research

Harding, J. E. (2023, December). Orality and the Book of Job. Verbal presentation at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Harding, J. (2022, December). What makes the book of Job ambiguous? Verbal presentation at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS) Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Harding, J. E. (2021). Palestine during the Iron Age. In K. J. Dell (Ed.), The Biblical world. (2nd ed.) (pp. 452-479). London, UK: Routledge. Chapter in Book - Research

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