Eryl W Davies
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Philosophy and Religion
Bangor University
United Kingdom
Biography
I was educated at Bangor University and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, from where I gained my PhD degree for work on the ethics of the prophet Isaiah. In 1979 I was appointed Lecturer at Bangor University and promoted to Reader in 1988. In 2012 I was awarded a DD from Bangor University in recognition of my work in the field of biblical ethics, and in 2014 I was awarded a Personal Chair. In 2013 I was elected President of the Society for Old Testament Study. I was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to study at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg for 12 months in October 1983, and have since been awarded grants to study at the University of Tubingen. I have been a Visiting Lecturer at Serampore College, India (2002) and Baylor University, Waco, Texas (2004).
Research Interest
Biblical ethics Feminist biblical criticism Land and inheritance rights in ancient Israel Critical theory and the Bible Reader-response criticism and the Bible
Publications
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The Bible in Ethics’ in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (ed. J Rogerson and J. Lieu), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 732–53
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‘The Ethics of the Old Testament: Historical and Literary Approaches’, in A. F. Sell (ed.), The Bible in Church, Academy and Culture, Oregon, USA: Wipf and Stock, 2011, pp. 44–57
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The Ethics of the Hebrew Bible’, in D.E. Singh and B.C. Farr (eds), The Bible and Christian Ethics, Regnum Books International, 2013, pp. 3–9
