Margaret Thrall

Summary

Margaret Eleanor Thrall (1928–2010) was a Welsh theologian, academic, and Anglican priest.

Thrall studied at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1960.[1] Her doctoral supervisor was C. F. D. Moule.[2] She taught the New Testament and Koine Greek at the University of Wales, Bangor, where she rose to be Reader in Biblical Studies.[2] She was also an associate editor of the New Testament Studies journal.[2] She was one of the first women to be ordained in the Church in Wales when she was made a deacon in 1982 and a priest in 1997.[1] She served as Canon Theologian at Bangor Cathedral from 1994 to 1997.[2] She was awarded the Burkitt Medal by the British Academy in 1998.[3]

Selected works edit

  • Thrall, Margaret E. (1962). Greek Particles in the New Testament. Leiden: Brill.
  • Thrall, Margaret E. (1994). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. Vol. I: Introduction and Commentary on II Corinthians I–VII (ICC). Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
  • * Thrall, Margaret E. (2000). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: Vol. II: Commentary on II Corinthians VIII-XIII (ICC). Edinburgh: Clark.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Margaret Eleanor Thrall". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Watts, Jenny (21 December 2010). "The Rev Margaret Thrall obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ "BURKITT MEDAL FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 10 March 2021.