Senior 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