Rev Dr Jeremy Corley

Lecturer in Sacred Scripture

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3371

Email: Jeremy.Corley[at]spcm.ie

Office Location: Room 2, Dunboyne House

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2.00-3.00pm

 

 

Biography:

Priest of the Diocese of Portsmouth (UK), ordained in 1987. Studied Hebrew at Oxford University (BA/MA) and Theology at Oscott College, Birmingham. Curate at St Joseph’s Church, Aldershot (1987-92). Doctorate in Biblical Studies (1992-96) at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Parish Priest, St Joseph’s Church, Newbury (1996-98). Lecturer in Scripture at Ushaw College, Durham (1998-2011). Member, Executive Committee of Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain (1998—2011; Chair 2004-2006). Member of Catholic Biblical Association of America. Vice-President, International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, Salzburg (2003—present).

Research Interests:

Book of Sirach (Ben Sira).
Second Temple Jewish literature.

Select Publications:

Co-editor (with Renate Egger-Wenzel). Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul. DCLY 2011. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012.

“Imitation of Septuagintal Narrative and Greek Historiography in the Portrait of Holofernes,” in A Pious Seductress: Studies in the Book of Judith, ed. Géza G. Xeravits. DCLS 14. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. Pp. 22-54.

“Similes and Sound Patterns as Rhetorical Tools in Two Hebrew Wisdom Books,” in Verborgen lezers: Over tekst en communicatie in het Oude Testament [= Hidden Readers: Text and Communication in the Old Testament], ed. A. L. H. M. van Wieringen. Theologische Perspectieven Supplement Series 2. Bergambacht: 2VM, 2011. Pp. 93-128.

Co-editor (with Harm van Grol), Rewriting Biblical History: Essays on Chronicles and Ben Sira in Honor of Pancratius C. Beentjes. DCLS 7. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011.

“Imitation of Septuagintal Narrative and Greek Historiography in the Portrait of Holofernes,” in Studies in the Book of Judith: Papers of the Sixth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, ed. G. Xeravits and J. Zsengellér. DCLS. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. Pp. 23-55.

“Joshua as a Warrior in Hebrew Ben Sira 46:1-10,” in Visions of Peace and Tales of War, ed. P. C. Beentjes and J. Liesen. DCLY 2010. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. 207-48.
Annotated bibliography, “Sirach,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“The Portrait of Samuel in Hebrew Ben Sira 46:13-20,” in Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. H. Lichtenberger and U. Mittmann-Richert. DCLY 2008. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. 31-56.

“Sirach,” in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 5. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009. Pp. 285-94.

Editor. New Perspectives on the Nativity. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2009.

Co-editor (with V. Skemp). Studies in the Greek Bible. CBQ Monograph Series 44. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2008.

“Sirach 44:1-15 as Introduction to the Praise of the Ancestors,” in Studies in the Book of Ben Sira: Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, ed. G. Xeravits and J. Zsengellér. JSJ Supplement 127. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. 151-81.

“Rhyme in the Hebrew Prophets and Wisdom Poetry,” Biblische Notizen 132 (2007) 55-69.

“A Numerical Structure in Sirach 44:1—50:24,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69 (2007) 43-63.

“The Review of History in Eleazar’s Prayer in 3 Macc 6:1-15,” in History and Identity: How Israel’s Later Authors Viewed Its Earlier History, ed. N. Calduch-Benages and J. Liesen. DCLY 2006. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 201-29.

Co-editor (with V. Skemp). Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit. CBQ Monograph Series 38. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005.

Co-editor (with R. Egger-Wenzel). Prayer from Tobit to Qumran. DCLY 2004. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.

Unlocking the Gospels: Five Keys for Biblical Interpretation [booklet]. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2004.

“The Pauline Authorship of 1 Corinthians 13,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 66 (2004) 256-74.
Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship. Brown Judaic Studies 316. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002.

Current Research:

Catholic Biblical Association of America Annual Meeting, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, August 2011: “Emotional Transformation in the Book of Baruch.”
Palermo ISDCL Conference on Family and Kinship in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, June 2011: “Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-16.”
Tilburg University, Utrecht, Old Testament conference, June 2011: “Similes and Sound Patterns as Rhetorical Tools in Two Hebrew Wisdom Books.”
Metz Ben Sira Conference, October 2009: “An Alternative Hebrew Form of Ben Sira: The Anthological Manuscript C.”

Current Courses:

• SC 335: God & Suffering in the Wisdom Literature
• SC 231: Prophetic Literature
• PG 438: Social Justice in the OT
• Old Testament Introduction [Higher Diploma in Theological Studies]
• BL 181: Introduction to Biblical Greek
• BL 183: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew