Minna Shkul

I teach religion and social sciences, and literary critical biblical interpretation at the University of Sheffield. I am co-director for Hidden Perspectives Project at the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.

My research involves sociology of religion, social identity, memory, studying contemporary religiosity, as well as applying literary theory in biblical studies.

I teach a range of courses related to social sciences and religion, as well as literary critical biblical interpretation, and run Sheffield's LGBT* Studies module.

Publications:

Reading Ephesians, Exploring Social Entrepreneurship. Library of New Testament Studies 408. London & New York: Continuum, 2009.

“Ephesians” in Coleman Baker and Brian Tucker (eds), T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament. (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming).

“Ritual and emerging church hierarchy" in Risto Uro (ed. et al) Oxford Handbook on Early Christian Rituals. (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming in 2017).

“Letters”, and “Pauline Literature” in Chris Keith (ed. et al), Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media Culture. London & New York (London: Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming).

“Ephesians.” Oxford Annotated Bibliography. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014).

“Ritualization in the Deutero-Pauline Epistles” in Coleman Baker and Brian Tucker (eds), T& T Clark Handbook on Social Identity in the New Testament. (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

“New Identity and Cultural Baggage: Identity and Otherness in Colossians” in Coleman Baker and Brian Tucker (eds), T&T Clark Handbook on Social Identity in the New Testament. (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).

“Questions of Identity, Otherness, and ‘Jewishness’” in Raimo Hakola, ed. et al. Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identity. Volume 106. Publications of Finnish Exegetical Society. (Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society: 2013)

Other professional activities:
I am a member of the British New Testament Society and co-chair of its Social World seminar, and a member of European Association of Biblical Studies, Society of Biblical Literature and Finnish Exegetical Society.