I am interested in the Bible and all the different discourses in which these texts are involved. By use of theories from Gender Studies and Cultural Studies my research emphasize the ongoing dynamics and complex processes between ancient texts and meaning production today. In my research I have focused on how New Testament texts can be placed in the historical context in which they were produced (Jewish, Greco-Roman), to see how early Christian literature interact with other ideas and practices in antiquity.

New Testament Studies; History of Early Christianity; Biblical Hermeneutics; Orality-Literacy Studies; Media History of the Bible; Jewish-Christian Dialogue

My background is in performance. I am interested in the creative dynamic which brings the impact of immediate experience to utterance. I am presently preparing a work- "Vital Performance and Generative Thinking- which draws on my performance experience and  admiration for shamanic performance.  I have a very undeveloped interest in the Apocalypse as performance.

My current work is best described as being located at the intersection of cultural and cognitive memory studies, research on ancient media, and analysis of the history of the gospel tradition.

M.A. Thesis on the book of Job.  I am arguing for Job as the speaker of chapter 28.

Currently translating Ecclesisates with Dr. Knut M. Heim and I am investigating the theater in Jerusalem during the second temple time period (after the influence of Greek culutre).  Greek Tragedy seems to fit the context of Ecclesiastes, and perhaps it was an acutal "performace" (to be literal with the term).  There is a lot to explore, but am interested in heading this direction.

I have read Singing Moses' Song (Keith Stone), and have orderes Insights from Performance Criticism.

I have done a word-for-word scripture presentation from memory for at least almost all of every book of the New Testament. I have started into Old Testament series memorization work (which would not cover the whole Old Testament) and into Spanish and Portuguese scripture memorization work.

Inventing the methodology, practicing, and teaching sound mapping; Greek grammar, Hellenistic literary criticism

As a certified lay speaker in the UM church, I am exploring the possibility of starting a biblical storytelling ministry. I have told biblical stories in the past, from the text and in first-person narrative, and feel the urge to have a more defined ministry.

I started to write about the Bible as Theatre in the mid 1970s.

In 1996 it was Tel Aviv University's turn to host the yearly International Federation (of) Theatre Research conference. I proposed the title Theatre and Holy Script, and later edited the book by the same name (sussex Academic Press 1999), a number of studies in the field. However, and to me not less important, A Bible and Theatre Desert workshop.

* and her hands on the threshold (Judges 19:28) in Hebrew [2000, “Veyadeha al Hassaf”, (Premiere TAU, 2000)

* Meine Schwester, Meine Braut (SOS), a European production, also feminist-oriented (Basel, 1997)

* and, these very days, Die Bibel als Theater (tentative title) at the municipal theatre in Bern, Switzerland; a one woman show to open Feb. 18th 2009.

* The next production is planned for Tel Aviv University's Theatre, towards June 2009.

Soundmapping

Poetics

I am primarily interested in performance-based interpretation of the Book of Revelation (the subject of my doctoral thesis) but have recently expanded my interests to include a wider perspective of performance of Biblical texts more generally and their impact upon audiences and interpretation.

I have studied and taught biblical studies and orality-literacy matters for nearly 50 years. I have many valued colleagues in various disciplines related to these concerns. Werner H. Kelber is a long time friend. My current work focuses on the issues raised by performance criticism, particularly on its interdisciplinary character.

I am current teaching an interdisciplinary course based on the work of Marhall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and John Miles Foley.

An expert in the study of Paul's letters, she published her first book in 1988: The Pauline Churches: A Socio-Historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings (Cambridge University Press). Since that time, Professor MacDonald has continued to publish and develop university courses that pay special attention to the social setting of early Christianity in the Roman Empire. She has also authored a commentary of the deutero-Pauline epistles, Colossians and Ephesians, (Vol. 17 of the New Testament Commentary series, Sacra Pagina, Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. ed. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2000) which has received praise for its social-scientific approach.

I work with multi-sectoral projects around the world that all integrate instructional design with the principles and methods of orality.