Madison N. Pierce

Rev. Dr. Pierce joined St Mary's School of Divinity in 2025 after teaching for several years in North America. She completed her PhD at Durham University under the supervision of Professor Francis Watson. Her thesis, Divine Discourse in the Epistle to the Hebrews, was published by Cambridge University Press in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (2020). She has also edited two collections of essays and authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes.

Her research interests are the Epistle to the Hebrews as well as the interpretation and reception of traditions in early Christian literature. Her current research is particularly focused on the author of Hebrews’s messiah language and analogies using Jewish rituals.

She is ordained in the Reformed Church in America as a Minister of Word and Sacrament. She is also a New Testament Editor at Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies and a co-host of The Two Cities podcast.

• DI3716 Readings in Early Christian Greek Texts (Co-Taught)
• DI3719 Bible through the Ages
• DI4615 New Testament Special Topic: Paul and Paganism (Co-Taught)
• DI5156 Hellenistic Greek Readings (Co-Taught)