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Katie Marcar 2020 imageSenior Teaching Fellow in Biblical Languages
PhD(Durham)

Room 4S12
Tel +64 3 479 9789
Email katie.marcar@otago.ac.nz

Katie Marcar is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Biblical Languages.  She completed a Masters in Biblical Studies at Edinburgh University before completing a PhD in New Testament Studies at Durham University.  In her doctoral thesis, she studied the theme of divine regeneration in 1 Peter.

She teaches introductory papers on biblical Greek and biblical Hebrew, as well as advanced papers on the Hebrew scriptures and Greek New Testament.

She has published on New Testament textual criticism and is actively engaged in research projects on the use of the Hebrew scriptures in the New Testament as well as the influence of Jewish apocalyptic thinking on the New Testament.

Katie is a Deacon in the Anglican Church in New Zealand.  She is actively engaged in church ministry, preaching, and youth work.

Main research interests

  • 1 Peter and the Catholic Epistles
  • New Testament use of the Scriptures
  • Jewish apocalyptic literature

Teaching

Publications

Marcar, K. (2024). On earth as it is in heaven? [Book review essay]. Stimulus, 31(1). Journal - Research Article

Marcar, K. (2024, July). The personification and defeat of the Devil and d/Death in Hebrews 2:14-15. Verbal presentation at the Worlds Above and Below Interdisciplinary Conference, [Hybrid]. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Marcar, K. (2024). [Review of the book 1 Peter: A critical and exegetical commentary (Vol. 2: Chapters 3-5)]. Biblica, 105(1), 142-145. doi: 10.2143/BIB.105.1.3293261 Journal - Research Other

Marcar, K. (2024, July). Passover, Exodus, and the victorious death of Jesus in Hebrews. Verbal presentation at the 78th General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), Melbourne, Australia. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Marcar, K. (2024). [Review of the book 1-2 Peter and Jude]. Theological Studies, 85(2), 331-332. doi: 10.1177/00405639241248951a Journal - Research Other

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