S. J. Parrott, DPhil

Assistant Professor of Biblical & Theological Studies

S.J. Parrott (DPhil), 2022, University of Oxford, is a born and raised Canadian. After completing two masters degrees at Regent College, Vancouver, she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Now published as a monograph (Brill, 2023), her work focused on prophetic metaphors of clothing and unclothing and how they created meaning and function with respect to identity de/formation in contexts of suffering and destruction. Following this she spent three years in München, Germany at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität as a post doctoral researcher and conceptualized her next book project. This current project examines the moral value of shame in the Psalms.

  • DPhil (Oxford; 2022)
  • ThM (Regent College; 2018)
  • MA in Theological Studies (Regent College; 2016)
  • BBA in Marketing (Mount Royal University; 2009)

Expertise

Shame, Ethics and Morality, Human Formation, Identity and Identity Formation, Ritual and Ritual Formation, Affective Dimensions of Literature, Symbolism, Rhetoric, Metaphor, Biblical Spirituality, Prophetic and Poetic Literature, Liturgical Texts, Philology, Prayer, Temple and Temple Cult

Recent Publications

  • Forthcoming – ““‘His Mother Would Make a Small Robe for Him’: The Construction of Dress as the Construction of Identity in 1 Samuel 2:19” in Festschrift for Iain Provan and Phil Long (Lanham: Lexington Press: forthcoming)
  • The Conceptualization of Dress in the Hebrew Bible (Leiden: Brill, 2023)
  • “Cause me to Understand Your Ways, O Lord!: A Journey through Psalm 25,” Search—A Church of Ireland Journal 46 (2023): 13–18
  • “‘Because of my ה רד I set Upon You’: Transformation through Dress in Ezekiel 16:1-14,” in Dress in the Hebrew Bible: Let Your Garments Always be Bright, ed. Antonios Finitsis, 187-208 (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022)
  • “Names/Naming,” Judaism and Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 20, ed. Constance M. Furey, Brian Matz, Steven L. McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski [online resource] (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020)
  • “Nimrod,” Judaism and Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 20, ed. Constance M. Furey, Brian Matz, Steven L. McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski [online resource] (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020)
  • Student editor. Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and Anti-Judaism, edited by Arjen Bakker, René Bloch, Yael Fisch, Paula Fredriksen, and Hindy
    Najman (Leiden: Brill, 2022)

  • RELS 111 Old Testament: God, Humanity, World
  • RELS 222 Israelite Religion