Margaret MacDonald
Dr. Margaret Y. MacDonald, ProfessorEmail: Margaret.MacDonald@smu.ca
Primary Field of StudyEarly Christianity; New Testament
Secondary Fields of Study
Women and Christianity; family and religion; gender and religion; childhood and religion
EducationDPhil in New Testament Studies, Oxford University
B.A. (Hon), Religious Studies, Saint Mary’s University
Selected Publications
“The Body as Space of Resistance: Response to Johnson, Moxnes, and Gil-Arbiol”, in John A. Egger and Christopher B. Zeichmann (eds), Recovering an Undomesticated Paul: Essays on the Legacy of Paul. Studies in Judaism and Christianity Series. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens Press, 2023, 379-96.
“The Wet Nurse as a Model for Communal Relationships in 1 Thessalonians”, in Esther Kobel, Jo-Ann A. Brant, Meredith J. C. Warren (eds.) in collaboration with Andrew Bowden, The Ties that Bind: Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, and Reception History. LNTS 660; London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2023, 106-115.
“Colossians and Ephesians”, in Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of the Historical Paul. London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark,2022, 379-96.
“Titus”, in Donald Senior, CP, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara E. Reid, OP and John J. Collin (eds.), The Jerome Bible Commentary for the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, 1753-59.
“The Deutero-Pauline Letters in Contemporary Research”, in R. Barry Matlock (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Oxford Handbooks online, 2014. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600489.013008. Print version, 2022, 258-79.
“Education and the Household in the Pastoral Epistles”, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 75 (2021): 283-93.
“The Thessalonian and Corinthians Letters”, in Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 69-91.
“God’s Gift in Ephesians: Dwelling in the Space of Divine Transcendence in the Face of Hopelessness and Dislocation”, Horizons in Biblical Theology 41.2 (2019): 209-223.
“Always be Steady and Endure Suffering (2 Tim 4,1-22): Advising the Teacher in the Roman Imperial World”, in Reimund Bieringer (ed.), 2 Timothy and Titus Reconsidered Der 2. Timotheus und Der Titusbrieft in Neuen Licht, Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2018, 87-109.
“Re-envisioning Ekklesia Space: Evidence of the Flexible Use of Household Space for Religious Instruction and Practice in the Pastoral Epistles,” in Marcus Őhler and Norbert Zimmerman (eds.), Sacra Privata: Domestic Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 18-19 (2017): 91-104 DOI: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
“Paul and Family Life,” in J. Paul Sampley (ed.), Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook, Second Edition, 2 vols, London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2016, 254-81.
“The Problem of Christian Identities in Ephesians: Inspiration from the work of Nils Alstrup Dahl,” Studia Theologica – Nordic Journal of Theology 70 (2016): 1-19.
“Like Father Like Son: Reassessing Constructions of Fatherhood in Ephesians in Light of Cultural Interests in Family Continutiy, in Anne Hegge Grung, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow and Anna Rebecca Soleväg (eds.), Bodies, Borders, Believers: Ancient Texts and Present Conversations: Essays in Honor of Turid Karlsen Seim on her 70th birthday. Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, Pickwick Publications, 2015, 125-143.
“The Deutero-Pauline Letters in Contemporary Research” in R. Barry Matlock (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Oxford Handbooks online, 2014. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600489.013008.
The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman world, Waco Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014.
“A Response to Elizabeth A. Clark’s Essay ‘Status Feminae: Tertullian and the Uses of Paul’,” in Todd D. Still and David E. White (eds.), Tertullian and Paul, The Reception of Paul in the Early Church. New York and London: T&T Clark, 2013, 156-64.
“Portraits of Paul in Colossians and Ephesians,” The Bible Today September/October 2013: 289-94.
“The Religious Lives of Women in the Early Church,” in Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsey (eds.), The Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated (Twentieth Anniversary Edition). Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2012, 640-647.
“Reading the New Testament Household Codes in Light of New Research on Children and Childhood in the Roman World,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41/3 (2012): 376-87.
“Reading 1 Corinthians 7 through the eyes of families,” in Carolyn Osiek and Aliou C. Niang (eds.), Text, Image and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of David Lee Balch. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2012, 38-52.
“Editorial Introduction: Special Issue on Children and Childhood in Early Judaism and Early Christianity,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41/3 (2012): 341-49.