St Andrews is the kind of place you dont want to leave.

As I was entering the final year of my doctorate, I began to look for funding that would allow me to stay in the University for a little longer, doing further research. This eventually came in the form of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, which provides funding for me to prepare a critical edition of the Slavonic text of 2 Enoch, an apocalyptic text - possibly Jewish and dating back to the New Testament period - that is now attested only in Slavonic manuscripts dating from the 14th - 18th centuries.

This research will overlap with a wider project here at the University to prepare translations of "More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha" (just look it up in a dictionary!) This project is led by Professor Richard Bauckham and Dr. Jim Davila and will help to flesh out our knowledge of early Judaism and nascent Christianity and of the kind of writings that these groups produced.

In addition to the research responsibilities, I will be involved as a lecturer at St Mary's, teaching a module on Jesus and the Gospels this year (and probably next) and co-teaching a module on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha the year after that.