Academic biography

Miriam De Cock is an Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies (New Testament and Early Christianity). She joined DCU in the fall of 2022. She was formerly a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Miriam’s PhD in Early Christianity is from McMaster University’s Department of Religious Studies (conferred in 2019), where she also did an MA in Early Christianity (2012). She recently published her PhD thesis as Interpreting the Gospel of John in Antioch and Alexandria (SBL Press, 2020), and recent articles include “Origen’s Mediation of the Logos in his Exegesis of the Old Testament Psalms and Prophets” (Studia Patristica) and “Theodoret of Cyrus and his Exegetical Predecessors: A Study of his Biblical Commentary Prefaces” (Open Theology). She teaches courses in the New Testament and its reception and researches in early Christian exegesis and exegetical culture. Her current projects concern a re-examination of Origen of Alexandria's exegetical genres and a study of ancient articulations of the ideal scriptural exegete.