Rev Brendan McConvery, CSsR, SSL

Lecturer in Sacred Scripure
Editor, Scripture in Church

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3507
E-mail: brendan.g.mcconvery@may.ie

Office Location: Room 15, Dunboyne House

Office Hours:
Undergraduates: Tuesday 10.15—10.45 am; Wednesday, 4.00—5.00 pm
Postgraduates: by arrangement

Biography:
Brendan McConvery is a priest-member of the Redemptorist Congregation. Born in Belfast, he studied Arts and Philosophy at University College and at the Redemptorist House of Studies, Galway, Theology at the Holy Ghost Missionary College, Dublin. He taught English and French at St Clement’s College, Limerick. After post-graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome and at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, he taught scripture at the Holy Ghost Missionary College, Dublin and several other Dublin centres of theology. He has taught Sacred Scripture at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, since 1993, with a concentration in the area of Old Testament.

Research Interests:

• Wisdom literature and its origins
• History of the Redemptorist Congregation in Ireland
  

Select Publications:

• ‘Deacon and Ministry of the Word’ in Gearóid Dullea (ed) Deacons, Dublin: Veritas, 2010.
• ‘Paul’s Legacy for Today’ Reality, Apr 2009.
• ‘Paul and Women’ Reality, Mar 2009.
• ‘Paul the Letter Writer’ Reality, Feb 2009.
• ‘Paul the Missionary’ Reality, Jan 2009.
• How to Read the Bible: A Manual for Beginners, Dublin: Redemptorist Publications, 2009.
• The Year of God’s Favour: Getting More out of Sunday Mass in the Year of Luke, Dublin: Redemptorist Publications, 2009.
• ‘The Shaping of Irish Religious Life’ in Tony Flannery (ed) Responding to the Ryan Report, Dublin: Columba Press, 2009.
• ‘Paul the Christian’ Reality, Dec 2008.
• ‘Celebrating the Year of St Paul: Paul the Jew’ Reality, Nov 2008.
• ‘My Favourite Book of the Bible: Why I like the Book of Tobit’ Reality, January 2008.
• ‘Judas the Obscure’ Reality, Sept 2007.
• “Hippolytus’ Commentary on the Song of Songs and John 20: Intertextual Reading in Early Christianity” ITQ, 71, 211-222, 2006.
• Ed. with Joseph Egan, Faithful Witness: Glimpses of the Kingdom, eds. Dublin: Kimmage Mission Institute, 2005.
• ‘Matthews, Mark and Molly: Mark 8:22-26 and 10:46-52 in two Contemporary Irish Dramas,’ Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 25, 69-80, 2002.
• “Hell-fire and Poitín: Redemptorist Missions in the Irish Free State 1922-36” History Ireland, 8, 18-22, 2000.
• Translation and commentary of several works in Alphonsus Liguori: Selected Writings. Classics of Western Spirituality, Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1999.
• ‘Some aspects of Redemptorist missions in the new Irish State (1920-1937)’ in Spicilegium Historicum CSsR, 47.1, 1999.
• ‘Ben Sira's "Praise of the Physician" (Sir 38:1-15) in the Light of Some Hippocratic Writings,’ Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association, 21, 1998.
• ‘Ancient Physicians and their Art,’ The Bible Today 36 (1998), 306-312, 1998.
• Edited with Raphael Gallagher, History and Conscience: Studies in Honour of Father Sean O'Riordan CSsR, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989.

Current Research:

• History of the interpretation of the Song of Songs

Courses

• From Eden to Exile: Introduction to the Old Testament [SC 131]
• The Wisdom Literature and Psalms [SC 331]
• The Song of Song in the Medieval Commentary Tradition [Postgraduate Seminar Course]

Links and Other Interests

• Scripture in Church
• Redemptorists in Ireland