Rev. Dr Martin Micallef is an academic member of the Department of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek at the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, where he lectures mainly on the Gospel of John, New Testament exegesis, and anti-semitism in the New Testament. Rev. Dr Micallef studied at the University of Malta, graduating S.Th.B (Melit.) and pursued his postgraduate studies in Sacred Scripture at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a Masters in Theology (M.St Oxon.) with a dissertation on “ The Obedience of Christ in the Commentary on the Gospel of John by Cyril of Alexandria: An Examination of Doctrinal Presuppositions.” In 2009, at the University of Malta, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis (S.Th.D.) with a study on the importance of “Seeking/zeteo” in the Gospel of John. He was subsequently appointed Head of the Department of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek at the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, a post which he held until his appointment as Provincial Minister of the Maltese Capuchin Province in 2014. Rev. Dr Micallef is the Chief Editor of the Faculty of Theology’s peer-reviewed research journal Melita Theologica, and editor of Kliem il-Hajja, a monthly publication in Maltese with daily meditations on selected readings from the Holy Bible. He is also a member of the Maltese Bible Society for the Revision of the Bible in Maltese, and librarian and museum curator for the Maltese Capuchin Province.
