Casey Strine
University of Sheffield
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Affiliations
Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Literature at the University of Sheffield
Biography
Strine studies the history, literature, and cultures of the ancient Near East, with a specialization in ancient Israel and a focus on the role of involuntary migration across the region during the Iron Age. He is the author of the award winning Sworn Enemies (Walter de Gruyter, 2013, winner of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise) and When the Son of Man Didn't Come (Fortress Press, 2016). Strine is also co-director and co-curator for Back Where You Came From, an participatory action research project reading and responding to stories about involuntary migration in Genesis with people seeking asylum.
Research Focus
- How can the study of migration—especially involuntary migration—aid in reconstructing the history of ancient Assyria, Babylonia, Israel, and Judah from textual sources and material culture.
- What impact does reading the texts of the Hebrew Bible from the perspective of an involuntary migrant have on their meaning, their contribution to constructive theology, to Christian ethics, and to political engagement by faith communities.
GFI Writings
Casey Strine
University of Sheffield
This Theology Is Entirely About Humans - What About Animals and the Ecosystem?
I offer two brief responses in the form of questions on Prof Biggar’s engaging piece. First, I note the way that Prof Biggar discusses how the created order leads on to some propositions about the moral order as thought provoking and helpful. It is, however, androcentric. The focus is entirely on hu…
Casey Strine
University of Sheffield
Focus Less on Rights, More on Obligations
Insofar as this argument depends on interpretations of texts from the Hebrew Bible and their contribution to ethics, this intersects with writing I have done on particular texts (in Genesis, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) and with my contention that there are significant impediments to Western thinkers unde…