After completing his doctorate in 1982 (Wycliffe and U of Toronto), Terry Donaldson taught for seventeen years in Saskatoon at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Religious studies at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1999, he returned to Toronto where he took up his present position in New Testament at Wycliffe College (with a status-only appointment to the Centre for the Study of Religion). In addition to four books and one edited volume, he has published about thirty-five journal articles or chapters, together with a number of shorter dictionary articles and reviews. Broadly speaking, his research interests have to do with 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 environment into a largely Gentile religion, separate and distinct from the synagogue. His current research involves the formation of identity within “Gentile Christianity (Christianities)” to the end of the second century.
Areas of Research
Second Temple Judaism; Matthew; Paul; Gentilization of early Christianity; ethnicity, identity and self-definition; Christian-Jewish relations
Selected publications
Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament (London: SPCK; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2010)
“Introduction to the Pauline Corpus” (Oxford, 2010)
Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE) (Baylor University Press, 2007)
“Jewish Christianity, Israel’s Stumbling and the Sonderweg Reading of Paul,” in Journal for the Study of the New Testament 29 (2006), 27-54
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed.; WLU Press, 2000)
Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World (Fortress, 1997)
Wycliffe College
BSc (Toronto), MRel, ThM, ThD (Wycliffe, Toronto), DCnL (Emmanuel & St. Chad, Saskatoon)
5 Hoskin Avenue
tel: (416) 946-3537
email: terry.donaldson@utoronto.ca