Dr Sarah Nicholson

  • Senior Lecturer (Theology & Religious Studies)

telephone: 01413304608
email: Sarah.Nicholson@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 1/2, Level 3, Theology and Religious Studies, 4 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X

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.

Research groups

  • Biblical Interpretations

Publications

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Number of items: 17.

2024

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2024) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising biblical studies for future generations. In: Stiebert, Johanna (ed.) Activism, Bible, and Research-Based Teaching: Practical Approaches for the Global Biblical Studies Classroom. Series: Bible in the Modern World (85). Sheffield Phoenix Press: Sheffield, pp. 154-176. ISBN 9781914490439

Nicholson, Sarah L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2024) The challenges involved in teaching Biblical Hebrew to students with dyslexia: some observations. Teaching Theology and Religion, 27(1-2), pp. 30-36. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12659)

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2024) Buffy the Philistine slayer: echoes of Samson in the Buffyverse. In: Welton, Rebekah and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne (eds.) Bibles in Popular Cultures. Series: Scriptural traces (30). T&T Clark: London, pp. 29-48. ISBN 9780567702203

2021

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (Eds.) (2021) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Series: Bible in the Modern World. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield. ISBN 9781914490071

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Introduction: What is a woman? Contested identities in the Bible. In: Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne and Nicholson, Sarah (eds.) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781914490071

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Constructing 'The Prostitute': Masters and Johnson could learn something from Tamar. In: Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne and Nicholson, Sarah (eds.) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield, pp. 142-158. ISBN 9781914490071

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (Eds.) (2021) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II. Open Theology. 7(1) [Edited Journal]

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Biblical Hebrew, With Original Texts. Hodder & Stoughton: London. ISBN 9781473627833

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2021) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world II: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 7(1), pp. 670-674. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0188)

2020

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2020) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising Biblical Studies for future generations. Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2(1), pp. 248-265. (doi: 10.17613/n0a2-e260)

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (Eds.) (2020) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World. Open Theology. 6(1) [Edited Journal]

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2020) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 6, pp. 706-710. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0143)

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

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 15:08:32 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Edited Books | Edited Journals
Number of items: 17.

Articles

Nicholson, Sarah L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2024) The challenges involved in teaching Biblical Hebrew to students with dyslexia: some observations. Teaching Theology and Religion, 27(1-2), pp. 30-36. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12659)

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2021) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world II: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 7(1), pp. 670-674. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0188)

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2020) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising Biblical Studies for future generations. Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2(1), pp. 248-265. (doi: 10.17613/n0a2-e260)

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2020) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 6, pp. 706-710. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0143)

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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Biblical Hebrew, With Original Texts. Hodder & Stoughton: London. ISBN 9781473627833

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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (2024) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising biblical studies for future generations. In: Stiebert, Johanna (ed.) Activism, Bible, and Research-Based Teaching: Practical Approaches for the Global Biblical Studies Classroom. Series: Bible in the Modern World (85). Sheffield Phoenix Press: Sheffield, pp. 154-176. ISBN 9781914490439

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2024) Buffy the Philistine slayer: echoes of Samson in the Buffyverse. In: Welton, Rebekah and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne (eds.) Bibles in Popular Cultures. Series: Scriptural traces (30). T&T Clark: London, pp. 29-48. ISBN 9780567702203

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Introduction: What is a woman? Contested identities in the Bible. In: Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne and Nicholson, Sarah (eds.) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781914490071

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (2021) Constructing 'The Prostitute': Masters and Johnson could learn something from Tamar. In: Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne and Nicholson, Sarah (eds.) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield, pp. 142-158. ISBN 9781914490071

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

Edited Books

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (Eds.) (2021) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. Series: Bible in the Modern World. Sheffield Pheonix Press: Sheffield. ISBN 9781914490071

Edited Journals

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 and Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X (Eds.) (2021) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II. Open Theology. 7(1) [Edited Journal]

Nicholson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176X and Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8971 (Eds.) (2020) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World. Open Theology. 6(1) [Edited Journal]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 15:08:32 2025 BST.

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
  • Stone, Sara
    Examining the blame-shifting culture in the Hebrew Bible

Teaching

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