On 29 October 2024 Prof. Susan Docherty gave the autumn 2024 Smith Lecture to the title, 'Reading the New Testament as a Jewish Text'.

You can listen to the lecture here.

Susan Docherty studied Theology at the University of Cambridge, gaining a BA, MA and MPhil there, before completing her PhD at the University of Manchester. She has taught at Newman University (Birmingham, UK) since 2000, and was appointed Reader in Biblical Studies in 2013 and then Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism in 2015. She specialises in early Jewish and early Christian biblical interpretation.

She is the current convenor of the Annual Seminar on the Jewish Scriptures in Earliest Christianity and jointly guest edited a special edition (published in September 2015) of the Journal of New Testament Studies devoted to the re-use of Israel's Scriptures in the New Testament.

In 2016 Prof. Docherty was awarded the William Barclay Distinguished Research Fellowship in Biblical Studies at Trinity College, University of Glasgow, and in 2020 the Mary Ward Visiting Fellowship at Margaret Beaufort Institute Cambridge.