Katherine Southwood

Katherine Southwood 

Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Religion

Affiliation: Faculty of Theology and Religion 
Expert in: Forced migration, Gender and sexuality in migration, Religion, Exile 
Geographic focus:  Global

Professor Southwood’s research combines philology with interdisciplinary approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Thus, a rigorous and detailed analysis of relevant aspects of language is combined with vibrant evaluations of texts using other disciplines and with thoroughly structured methodological underpinnings.

Migration-related publications:

• Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach (Oxford Theological Monograph Series.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 19 964434 6.
• Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible. Co-edited with Martien Halverson-Taylor. (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 631). London and New York: T & T Clark, 2018. Pp. x + 179. ISBN 978 0 567668448. Paperback published 27th June 2019.
• Co-edited Special volume on the topic of ‘Involuntary Migration in the Ancestral Narratives’ with Casey Strine (Sheffield) in Hebrew Studies 60 (2019), pp. 39-106.
• ‘The impact of the second-generation returnees as a model for understanding the post-exilic context’ in By the Rivers of Babylon: New Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform Texts Eds. J, Stökl and C. Waerzeggers. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 322-335. ISBN 978 3 11 041700 5.
• ‘Will Naomi’s Nation be Ruth’s Nation?: Ethnic Translation as a Metaphor for Ruth’s Assimilation within Judah’ in Humanities 3 Special Issue ‘Translation as the Foundation for Humanistic Investigations’ 2014, pp. 102-131.