We welcome Professor Grant Macaskill to our University as our new Lightfoot Professor of Divinity. He will join our leading Department of Theology and Religion in September.
Grant Macaskill earned his PhD at the University of St. Andrews. In fact, I was the internal examiner for his PhD viva. He also served as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews before his move to Aberdeen University. More details on his career are at the link.
Grant is a highly respected New Testament scholar and also an expert on 2 Enoch, one of those Old Testament pseudepigrapha preserved largely in Old Church Slavonic which I mentioned yesterday. I noted his monograph on it here last year.
Congratulations to Professor Macaskill and to Durham University!
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