Megan Daffern

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Profile

Chaplain at Jesus College and member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. After degrees in Classics and Theology at Oxford and Cambridge, Megan completed her DPhil in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible with a project on ‘Prayers for Remembering in the Psalms’. Ordained in the Diocese of Coventry in 2006, she began serving the academic community at Jesus College in 2009. Her current research focuses on the composition of the Psalter, righteousness in the Psalms, and the Jerusalem Temple as a place of judgement as well as prayer. Besides her work in and through the Jesus College chapel, she is preparing a book on ‘A Psalm a Day’ for Lent, 2018, including original translations of 40 psalms, to be published by SPCK.

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Interviewer

Brian Williams, Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics, University of Oxford, Lecturer in Theology, Jesus College, and Director of Oxford Conversations

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Select Publications

‘Repeat the Song! The Psalms and the Eucharist’, in The Expository Times, 2016, Vol.127 (12).

‘The Semantic Field of “Remembering” in the Psalms’, in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2016, Vol. 41(1).

‘A Journey of Two Psalms: The Reception of Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Christian Tradition’, in The Journal of Theological Studies, 2015, Vol. 66(1).

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