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Catherine Playoust
Dr Catherine Playoust joined the UFT faculty in 2008 as a lecturer in New Testament and related literature at Jesuit Theological College. She is currently Head of the UFT’s Department of Biblical Languages and Literature.
Catherine comes from Sydney, where she was awarded a BA (Hons) in music and pure mathematics followed by a BTh at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, part of the Sydney College of Divinity.
She spent eleven years in Boston, Massachusetts, receiving an STL at Weston Jesuit School of Theology and a ThD in New Testament and Christian Origins at Harvard Divinity School. While in the Boston area, she was a teaching fellow at Harvard Divinity School and a part-time faculty member at Boston College, as well as an editorial assistant for the Harvard Theological Review.
Catherine is a Roman Catholic layperson. For most of her life she has been engaged in liturgical ministries (music, reading, preaching, eucharistic, planning) in various parishes and educational settings.
College:
cplayoust@jtc.edu.au
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+61 3 9341 5876
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JTC
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Teaching Interests:
The Gospels of the New Testament, New Testament Greek, the transformation of Jewish and Christian traditions in early Christian literature
Research Interests:
The heavens and heavenly ascent as understood in the ancient Mediterranean world, early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism and mysticism, the diversity of early Christianity and the emergence of the category of heresy, early Christian non-canonical literature, reworkings of biblical and early Christian traditions in modern literature and music
Postgraduate Supervision:
Reader-response criticism of the Matthean infancy narrative from an Indian perspective, the “Western non-interpolations” in Luke 24, rhetoric in the book of Revelation
Publications:
Playoust, Catherine and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken. “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”. In Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, ed. Vanessa R. Sasson and Jane Marie Law (AAR Cultural Criticism Series; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 157–183.
Playoust, Catherine. “The Beauty of Jesus and His Twin: Redirected Erotics in the Acts of Thomas”, in the Proceedings of the colloquium, “Late Antique Crossroads in the Levant: Space, Ritual, Texts, and Daily Life” (Montreal, 1–4 November 2006), ed. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken & John M. Fossey. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
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