Dr Sarah Nicholson

  • Lecturer in Old Testament/ Tanakh Studies (Theology & Religious Studies)

Research interests

Research interests

  • Bible and literature
  • Bible and popular culture
  • Feminism and gender theory
  • Prostitution, feminism and the bible
  • Distance education
  • Philosophy of education
  • Theologies of the body

Biography

Sarah Nicholson came to Glasgow in 2000 after doing a PhD at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Peter Coxon.  Her thesis was on the tragic vision in the Saul narrative and its postbiblical echoes in Alphonse de Lamartine and Thomas Hardy.  She maintains an interest in the Saul narrative and its appearances in modern literature, and likes to balance this with a little feminism and popular culture, which expresses itself in conference papers on biblical themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, more seriously, in a project on biblical prostitution narratives and their relationship to sex work in the material world.


Supervision

Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:

  • Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:
  • The tragic vision in the Old Testament/Tanakh
  • Prostitution in the Old Testament/Tanakh
  • Feminist approaches to biblical literature
  • Queer approaches to biblical literature
  • Studies in Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Ruth, Song of Songs

Teaching

  • Classical Hebrew language
  • Bible as literature
  • Methods of biblical interpretation
  • Body and Belief

Publications

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Number of items: 5.

2006

Nicholson, S.L. (2006) Biblical Hebrew. Series: Teach yourself books. Contemporary Books: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780071434621

Nicholson, S.L. (2006) Catching the poetic eye: Saul reconceived in modern literature. In: Ehrlich, C. and White, M. (eds.) Saul in Story and Tradition. Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament (47). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 308-333. ISBN 3161485696

2005

Nicholson, S.L. (2005) Playing the whore: gender performance and basic instict in Genesis 38. In: Sherwood, Y. and Bird, D. (eds.) Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text. Ashgate, pp. 57-70. ISBN 0754635309

2002

Nicholson, S.L. (2002) The woman pays: death and the ambivalence of providence in Hardy's novels. Literature and Theology, 16(1), pp. 27-39. (doi:10.1093/litthe/16.1.27)

Nicholson, S.L. (2002) Three Faces of Saul: an Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 1841272485

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Number of items: 5.

Articles

Nicholson, S.L. (2002) The woman pays: death and the ambivalence of providence in Hardy's novels. Literature and Theology, 16(1), pp. 27-39. (doi:10.1093/litthe/16.1.27)

Books

Nicholson, S.L. (2006) Biblical Hebrew. Series: Teach yourself books. Contemporary Books: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780071434621

Nicholson, S.L. (2002) Three Faces of Saul: an Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 1841272485

Book Sections

Nicholson, S.L. (2006) Catching the poetic eye: Saul reconceived in modern literature. In: Ehrlich, C. and White, M. (eds.) Saul in Story and Tradition. Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament (47). Mohr Siebeck, pp. 308-333. ISBN 3161485696

Nicholson, S.L. (2005) Playing the whore: gender performance and basic instict in Genesis 38. In: Sherwood, Y. and Bird, D. (eds.) Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text. Ashgate, pp. 57-70. ISBN 0754635309

This list was generated on Tue May 21 04:07:43 2019 BST.


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