My research interest is early Jewish–Christian relations. I am particularly interested in exploring the interplay between Jewish and Christian exegesis, and in tracing the beginnings of mysticism. I studied for my PhD through Manchester University. My thesis has been published by OUP as Gregory of Nyssa’s Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts. I am an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham.I teach biblical studies and early mysticism not only at Queen’s, but also for Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre, Birmingham Church of England diocese and the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. I have previously taught biblical Hebrew at the University of Birmingham.I am an Accredited Lay Worker of the Church of England. I have worked in a parish and as a university chaplain. I am actively involved in Jewish–Christian dialogue, and am Chair of Birmingham Council of Christians and Jews.Select Publications

• ‘Exegetical Puzzles and the Mystical Theologies of Gregory of Nyssa and Dionysius the Areopagite’, Vigiliae christianae (published online June 2020).
• ‘Challenging Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: A Case Study from Luke’, Theology 123:6 (2020), 424-431.
• ‘“The Greatest Paradox of All”: The “Place of God” in the Mystical Theologies of Gregory of Nyssa and Evagrius of Pontus’, Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 5:2 (2018), 259-79.
• ‘The New Testament: Jewish or Gentile?’, Expository Times (published online November 2018).
• ‘Is the God of the Old Testament a God of Violence?’, Friends Quarterly 46:4 (2018), 4-17.
• ‘Teaching early Jewish-Christian relations: Negotiating the tensions between history and theology’, Jewish/non-Jewish Relations – Between Exclusion and Embrace (online teaching resource).
• Sermon Preached in the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: Evensong, Remembrance Sunday, 2016, The Expository Times (published online Jan 2017).
• Gregory of Nyssa’s Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• ‘Interiorised Apocalyptic in Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius of Pontus and Pseudo-Macarius’, in Markus Vinzent (ed.), Studia patristica 74 (Leuven, Peeters, 2016).
• ‘Contempt or Respect? Jews and Judaism in Christian Preaching’, The Expository Times, 127: 2 (2015), 63–72.
• ‘Uncreated and Created: Proverbs 8 and Contra Eunomium III/1 as the Background to Gregory’s Interpretation of the Tabernacle in Life of Moses II 173–7’, in Johan Leemans and Matthieu Cassin (eds), Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium III: An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies, Supplements to Vigiliae christianae (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
• ‘Filled with the Glory of God: The Appropriation of Tabernacle Imagery in the New Testament and Gregory of Nyssa’, in Michael Tait and Peter Oakes (eds), Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester–Lausanne Seminar of June 2008, Library of New Testament Studies 401 (London: T&T Clark, 2009), 228–238.
• ‘The Divine Colour Blue’ on the OUPblog (Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World), 8th October 2014.
• Chapters in Words for Today (ed. Nicola Slee) and Fresh from the Word(ed. Nathan Eddy), International Bible Reading Association.
• Bible and Sermon notes, Roots: Adult and All Age (resources for the weekly lectionary).