Dr Lydia Gore-Jones

Senior Lecturer, St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College
BA (Hon.) Ancient History, Macquarie 2012 Grad Cert in Arts, SCD 2019 MA Applied Linguistics, UNSW 2002 PhD Macquarie 2018

Dr Lydia Gore-Jones’ subject area is Biblical Studies. Her doctoral thesis completed at Macquarie University in 2018 dealt with two Jewish apocalyptic works as a response to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in AD 70. Her research areas cover Jewish and Christian Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, religious ideas in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, and Christian exegesis of scriptures in the early centuries. She has taught subjects related to biblical history and Hebrew language at tertiary level. She had previously worked as a radio journalist, translator, and teacher of English as a Second Language.

Publications
  • Forthcoming

    “Sofia and nomos in the Wisdom of Solomon,”

    in JiSeong James Kwon (ed.), Was Wisdom Transformed to Torah in the Second Temple Judaism? The New Paradigm of Torah-Wisdom Relationship in Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature.

  • 2022

    “How Irenaeus’ Against Heresies Uses Paul’s Letter to the Romans.”

    Phronema (37.1): 73-96.

  • 2021

    “Cognitive Blending Theory and the Mashal of the Forest and the Sea in 4 Ezra 4:13–17: the Boundedness of Human Knowledge,”

    in Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater and Martijn Stoutjesdijk, Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Mohr Siebeck.

  • 2021

    “Torah as Wisdom in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch

    Journal for the Study of Judaism (52.2): 1-29.

  • 2020

    "When Judaism Lost the Temple: Crisis and Response in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch."

    Studia Antiqua Australiensia 10. Brepols.

  • 2020

    "The Conceptual World of a Biblical Metaphor: the Metaphor of Sowing in 4 Ezra and Matthew.”

    Biblical Interpretation (28): 202–27.

  • 2018

    “Orality, Literacy and Memory in the Composition and Transmission of Christian Ezra Apocalypses.”

    Journal of Early Christian History (8): 75–95.

  • 2017

    “The Parting of the Ways.”

    In Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs (eds.), Into All the World: Emergent Christianity in Its Greco-Roman Context, 158–83. Eerdmans.

  • 2016

    “The Unity and Coherence of 4 Ezra: Crisis, Response and Authorial Intention.”

    Journal for the Study of Judaism (47): 212–35.

  • 2015

    “Animals, Humans, Angels and God: Animal metaphors in the historiography of the ‘Animal Apocalypse’ of 1 Enoch.”

    Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha (24): 268–87.