At Queen’s, we take the text of the Bible seriously and want to engage thoughtfully and critically with its content. Several of our courses consider how the Bible impacts upon other areas of theological engagement – for example, ethics or spirituality – but we also offer a number of modules which focus specifically on the biblical text and its interpretation within the life of the Church.

Studying

As a student at Queen’s, you can take a range of entry-level modules such as Introduction to the Old or New Testaments, or have the opportunity to study one of the gospels in more detail, normally the lectionary gospel for the particular year. At a more advanced level, we have a range of book studies, on texts such as Psalms or Genesis, or groups of texts such as the letters of Paul or the Catholic Epistles. These enable participants to grapple with a book of the Bible in more detail and reflect more critically upon its content and context. But at Queen’s, we also want to consider how the Bible is interpreted and how it may be read in different ways by different communities. This is particularly the concern of our undergraduate modules on Bible & Liberation, and Reading the Prophets in Context. It is also a key feature of the core module on our MA programme – Reading the Bible Contextually and Interculturally – where we encourage students to try out different ways of reading for themselves.

For more details about biblical studies at Queen’s, contact

Rachel Starr, Tutor in Hebrew Bible: r.starr@queens.ac.uk

David Allen, Tutor in New Testament: d.allen@queens.ac.uk