Humanities Staff

Dr Lloyd Pietersen

Position
Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator in New Testament Studies

Contact
Email: lpietersen@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 715321

Lloyd has an MA and PhD from the University of Sheffield.  His PhD traced the development of Pauline communities, as represented in the Pastoral Epistles, from the first to the second and subsequent generations.  This was published in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series as The Polemic of the Pastorals (T & T Clark, 2004).  He was previously a part-time Research Fellow in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Bristol where he taught both New Testament and Anabaptist Studies. He currently serves on the national steering group of the Anabaptist Network in Great Britain and Ireland and has had a number of articles published in their previous journal Anabaptism Today.  His research interests include the Pastoral Epistles, sociological approaches to NT interpretation, Anabaptist hermeneutics and biblical spirituality. He is currently writing a book entitled Reading the Bible After Christendom for the Post-Christendom series published by Paternoster and is involved on a research project with Professors Andrew Lincoln and Gordon McConville on the Bible and Spirituality.

Books

• The Mark of the Spirit? A Charismatic Critique of the Toronto Blessing Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998 (ed.), pp. x + 121.
• The Polemic of the Pastorals: A Sociological Examination of the Development of Pauline Christianity (JSNT Supplement Series 264) London: T & T Clark, 2004, pp. x + 182.
• New Directions in Qumran Studies (Library of Second Temple Studies 52) London: T & T Clark, 2005 (ed. with Jonathan G. Campbell and William John Lyons), pp. x + 226.

Articles

• "Despicable Deviants: Labelling Theory and the Polemic of the Pastorals," Sociology of Religion 58.4 (1997) 343-52.
• "Introduction" and "Ecstatic Phenomena for an Ecstatic Culture?" in ed. Lloyd K Pietersen, The Mark of the Spirit? (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998), 1-5, 7-32.
• "Magic/Thaumaturgy and the Pastorals" in ed. Todd E. Klutz, Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon (JSNT Supplement Series 245; London: T & T Clark, 2003), 157-67.
• "'False Teaching, Lying Tongues and Deceitful Lips' (4Q169 frgs 3-4 2.8): The Pesharim and the Sociology of Deviance" in eds. Jonathan G. Campbell, William John Lyons & Lloyd K. Pietersen, New Directions in Qumran Studies (Library of Second Temple Studies 52; London: T & T Clark, 2005), 166-81.