Academic Research

CURRENT RESEARCH

Dr McBay's current research interests include Luke 19 and the story of Zacchaeus, Stoic cosmological imagery in Roman Stoicism and Jewish perspectives on empire in the Pseudepigrapha. 

PUBLICATIONS

From Kings to Monsters: Jewish Perspectives on the Hellenistic and Roman Empires in Sibylline Oracles 3 and 5 (Brill: 2020) in Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 51, pp.208-230.

Book review of Keith Clements, SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer in Anvil Vol. 27 No. 1, 2011.

PhD

2018, University of Chester

“Divine Warrior and Cosmic Catastrophe: the Impact of Sib. Or. 3-5 on Interpretation

of Mark 13:24-25.”

RECENT PAPERS

“Playing with Fire: Stoic cosmological imagery in the first century”

May 2024 - Biblical studies seminar, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

“From Kings to Monsters: Jewish Perspectives on the Hellenistic and Roman Empires in Sibylline Oracles 3 and 5.”

November 2021 - NT Research Seminar, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Tyndale Fellowship, UK

Society of Biblical Literature

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Dr McBay has experience of teaching in a range of contexts, including Bible colleges in Eastern Asia, the former St John's College (Notts), undergraduate course in the Gospels (Chester), Old Testament (Winchester School of Mission) and later Epistles & Revelation (Iona School of Ministry). Most recently, she teaches Old Testament, preaching and ministry at Wycliffe Hall.