Heather Macumber

• BIBL 1020 Introduction to the Old Testament
• BIBL 2010 The Pentateuch
• BIBL 2650 Bible and the Arts
• BIBL 3060 Wisdom Literature
• BIBL 3070 Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
• BIBL 3616 Revelation
• BIBL 3640 Reception Studies: Mary Magdalene through the Ages
• BIBL 3650 Monsters and the Bible
• BIBL 3670 Gender and the Bible

University of St. Michael’s College (ON)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
2012

Tyndale Seminary (ON)

Master of Divinity (MDiv), Biblical Studies
2005

Queen’s University (ON)

Bachelor’s Degree (BA – Honours), History
2002

Present

• Providence University College, Faculty (since 2017)

Past

• Emmanuel College (Toronto, ON), Adjunct Professor (2013-2017)
• St. Michael’s College (Toronto, ON), Adjunct Professor (2009-2016)
• Queen’s University (Kingston, ON), Adjunct Professor (2009-2011)

Professional Associations

• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
• Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS)
• European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)

Select Awards

• Founders Prize – Awarded by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies for the best student essay (2008)
• Hebrew Award, Tyndale Seminary (2004)

Dissertations

• PhD Thesis. Angelic Intermediaries: The Development of a Revelatory Tradition, 2012.
• MDiv Thesis. Yahweh’s Protection and Rejection of Israel: The Harlot Metaphor in Ezekiel 16, 2005.

Books

• Macumber, H. Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation. London: Bloomsbury Academic (2021).

Peer Reviewed Articles

• (In progress) Macumber, H. “Cherubim and Cyborgs in Ezekiel’s Divine World.”
• Macumber, H. “Muted and Hidden Monsters in Rev 12.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 4.2 (2022): 89-106.
• Macumber, H. “The Threat of Empire: Monstrous Hybridity in Revelation 13.” Biblical Interpretation 27 (2019): 107-29.
• Macumber, H. “A Monster without a Name: Creating the Beast known as Antiochus IV in Daniel 7.” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 15: Article 9 (2016).

Chapters in a Collected Volume

• Macumber, H. “The Monstrous Dragon.” Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters. Edited by B. Grafius and J. Morehouse. New York: Oxford University Press (2025).
• Macumber, H. “Monsters, Hybridity, and Text: A Cautionary Tale,” in Religious Inventions: Ancient Mediterranean Practice and the Study of Religion. Edited by E. Vearncombe and W. Arnal. McGill-Queen’s University Press (2025).
• Macumber, H. “Apocalyptic Elements in Stranger Things,” in Theology, Religion, and Stranger Things. Edited by Andrew Byers and Adam J. Powell. Lanham: Lexington/Fortress Press (2025).
• Macumber, H. “Disappointing Dragons: The Powerless Monster of the Hebrew Bible,” in Pre-Modern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourse. Edited by Allan E.C. Wright. Wilmington: Vernon Press (2024).
  
• Macumber, H. “Monsters at Qumran.” Pages 145-68 in Dead Sea Scrolls: Revise and Repeat. Edited by C. Palmer, A. Krause, E. Schuller, and J. Screnock. Atlanta: SBL Press (2020).

Public Scholarship

• Los Angeles Review of Books: “What’s the Difference between a God and a Monster?” (Nov 12, 2025).
• Online Art Exhibition – Visual Commentary on Scripture (2024): An Uncertain Future (Ruth 1)
• Prov Talk (2024): Uncanny Metaphors: What do Eyelids, Lions, and Midwives have to do with God?
• Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology (Oct 27, 2024): Metaphors for God: Disrupting the Familiar & Embracing the Uncanny
• Ancient Jew Review (2024): Gamifying the Exam
• It Means What It Means Podcast (2023): Monsters in Revelation
• Online Art Exhibition – Visual Commentary on Scripture (2022): Leah’s Struggles
• CHVN Interview on “Connections” (2022): Monster Theory and the Bible
• John Morehead Video Podcast (2021): Monstrous in Revelation
• Bible for Normal People Podcast (2021): Monsters in the Bible
• Prov Talk (2018): Holy Terror: Finding Monsters in the Bible