Mr Read Marlatte

Graduate teaching assistant in theology

Mr Read Marlatte (BA, MPhil)

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Theology, I teach undergraduates at Oriel papers in the area of New Testament Studies. This primarily entails the Preliminary paper on Mark’s Gospel and the Final Honour School paper on The Gospels and Jesus but also, for those who are interested, includes papers on Pauline Literature and the Varieties of Judaism. I also teach New Testament Greek. For further details please see my teaching website (readmarlatte.co.uk).

I am currently doing a DPhil in Theology at Oxford, having completed a BA in Classics at the University of British Columbia and an MPhil in Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman world, at Oxford. My research focuses on the effective-history of Paul’s cultic metaphors in the early Christianity. I examine how Paul’s language of temple, sacrifice, priesthood and purity influenced various early Christians and what the implications of this might be for our understanding of Paul himself. I am interested in the interplay between theories of ritual, metaphor and hermeneutics, and in particular the application of the works of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricœur to the study of the New Testament.