Rate My Professor Katie Marcar

Revd Dr Katie Marcar serves as Senior Teaching Fellow in Biblical Languages in the Department of Theology at the University of Otago. She completed a Masters in Biblical Studies at the University of Edinburgh before earning her PhD in New Testament at Durham University. Marcar's doctoral work examined divine regeneration and ethnic identity in 1 Peter, culminating in her monograph Divine Regeneration and Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Mapping Metaphors of Family, Race, and Nation, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her research focuses on 1 Peter and the Catholic Epistles, intertextuality, the New Testament's use of the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and Jewish apocalyptic literature.

Marcar has published extensively on these topics, including 'Following in the Footsteps: Exemplarity, Ethnicity and Ethics in 1 Peter' in New Testament Studies (2022), 'Exodus in the General Letters' (2022), 'Apocalyptic Traditions in the Catholic Epistles' in The Oxford Handbook of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles (2024), 'The Quotations of Isaiah in 1 Peter: A Text-Critical Analysis' (2016), and 'In the Days of Noah: Urzeit/Endzeit Correspondence and the Flood Tradition in 1 Peter 3–4' (2017). Recent contributions include co-editing Worlds Above and Below: Interdisciplinary Essays on Supernatural Worlds in Classics, Second Temple Judaism, and Early Christianity (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2025), an opinion piece on generative AI in the Otago Daily Times (2025), and a book review essay in Stimulus (2024). She has presented papers such as 'Not with the blood of goats: Yom Kippur and cultic ritual sprinkling in Heb 9:11-14' and 'The personification and defeat of the Devil and d/Death in Hebrews 2:14-15' at conferences in 2024. As an Anglican deacon in the Diocese of Dunedin, she participates in preaching, youth work, and church ministry while teaching Biblical Greek, New Testament exegesis, and Old Testament interpretation at Otago.