Honorary Research Associate
Dr Angela Sawyer is an Honorary Research Associate at Eva Burrows College. Her University of Divinity PhD thesis (2017) was titled, ‘Reading the Exilic Theology of Isaiah 40-55 in the Context of Post-church Australia.’ Angela is currently Head of Bible and Senior Lecturer at ACOM, Sydney College of Divinity.
Her areas of research interest are Isaiah and OT prophets; exile; the relationship between Bible, trauma, violence and growth; feminist criticism; rhetorical criticism; and the pedagogy of biblical studies.
Her most recent publications include:
- “Deutero-Isaiah’s Daughter Zion as Survival Literature: Terror Management Theory.” In When Psychology meets the Bible, edited by Heather A. McKay, and Pieter van der Zwan, 104-129. Sheffield Phoenix, 2023
- “Desolate, Devastated, Redeemed, Restored: Feminist Visions of Daughter Zion in the Australian Context.” In Terror in the Bible: Rhetoric, Gender, and Violence, edited by Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, and Robyn J. Whitaker, 89-105. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021
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