Dr Madhavi Nevader
Lecturer in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
DI1201 From Adam to Apocalypse: The Bible and Western Culture
DI2001 Old Testament: The Writings and Beyond
DI3719 The History of the Bible
DI4616 Atonement
DI4711 Prophets: Hebrew Texts
DI4732 Kingship and Messianism
DI4733 Creation and Chaos in the ancient Near East and HB/OT
DI4832 God in Antiquity
Postgraduate Teaching
DI5433 Biblical Themes
Research areas
Madhavi Nevader joined the School of Divinity at St Andrews in 2014. She holds degrees from the Middlebury College (BA) and the University of Oxford (MPhil; DPhil). Previously she taught at the University of Glasgow and held an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford.
Her main areas of research include the political institution and theologies of the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern texts, Biblical and Near Easter Prophecy, and Israelite/Judahite religion. Her forthcoming monograph, Yhwh versus David: Royal Reconfigurations in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel 40-48, looks at the nature of political utopia in the Hebrew Bible and shifting notions of sovereignty. Other publications explore the Book of Ezekiel in its wider Ancient Near Eastern context. She is currently working on a longer-term project on kingship in ancient Israel/Judah, which reaches both out and back into the ancient Near East, but also forward into the reception of biblical models of political power.
Madhavi is on the editorial board of the monograph series ‘Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology’ (Peeters). She is co-chair of the Deuteronomy Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and is on the steering committee for the Exile and Forced Migration and the Utopian Studies sections of SBL.
PhD supervision
- Emily Page
- Vahid Davar Ghalati
- Noah Langston
- Haley Kirkpatrick
- Sungeui Lee
- Yi Zhang
- Julia Glanz
- Clayton Mills III
- Alistair Robertson
- Melissa Barciela Mandala
- Carolina Pineda
- Keith Pinckney Jr
Selected publications
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Ezekiel and politics
Nevader, M., 2023, The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel. Carvalho, C. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 218-236 19 p. (Oxford handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
When Gods talk to men: reading Mary with the annunciations of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Nevader, M., 1 May 2019, Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century. Corbett, G. (ed.). Open Book Publishers, p. 45-55Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Creating a Deus Non Creator: Divine Sovereignty and Creation in Ezekiel
Nevader, M., 2015, The God Ezekiel Creates. Joyce, P. M. & Rom-Shiloni, D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, p. 55-70 (LHB/OTS; vol. 607).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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On Reading Ezekiel by the Rivers of Babylon
Nevader, M., 2015, In: Die Welt des Orients. 45, p. 99-110Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Picking up the pieces of the little prince: refractions of neo-Babylonian kingship ideology in Ezekiel 40-48?
Nevader, M., 14 Aug 2015, Exile and Return: The Babylonian Context. Stökl, J. & Waerzeggers, C. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 268-291 24 p. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; vol. 478).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Yhwh and the kings of Middle Earth: royal polemic in Ezekiel's Oracles against the nations
Nevader, M., 2014, Concerning the Nations: Essays on the Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Mein, A., Holt, E. & Kim, H. C. P. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, p. 161-178 18 p. (LHB/OTS; vol. 612).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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At the End Returning to Questions of Beginnings: A Response to Jonathan Burnside
Nevader, M., 2013, In: Political Theology. 14, p. 619-627Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review