CONTRIBUTOR:

Terence L. Donaldson

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emeritus

DEPARTMENT:

Religious Studies

INSTITUTION:

Wycliffe College

BIOGRAPHY:

Terry Donaldson has been a Professor of New Testament Studies at Wycliffe College since 1999 (becoming Professor Emeritus in 2016), and has had a status-only appointment with the Department for the Study of Religion (U Toronto) since 2001. His current research project has to do with identity construction within early Gentile Christianity, in the dual context of the “parting of the ways” with Judaism and the Christianization of the Roman empire. More generally, his research interests have centred on the process by which the movement eventually known as Christianity developed—within a century or so—from its beginnings as an eschatological renewal movement entirely within the Jewish milieu into a largely Gentile religion, separate from the synagogue. His areas of teaching and publications include Second Temple Judaism and its literature; Jewish “universalism”; Matthew; Paul; Gentile Christianity; anti-Judaism and the New Testament. Before coming to Toronto, he taught at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad (Saskatoon), with a cross-appointment to the Department of Religious Studies (University of Saskatchewan).