The Prophet Isaiah

Last Tuesday, I went up to Winchester for the Clergy Formation Day. It was led by Dr. Jeremy Corley, a priest of our Diocese, who is the Lecturer in Sacred Scripture and Director of Research at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University in Dublin. Fr. Jeremy did his first degree in Hebrew at Oxford before studying for the priesthood at Oscott. After ordination, he was for five years assistant priest at St Joseph’s, Aldershot. He then went to Catholic University of America in Washington to do doctoral research in Biblical Studies (1992-96). When he returned, he served as parish priest of St Joseph’s Newbury, but was soon asked to go to Ushaw College, Durham as Lecturer in Scripture. He left there in 2011 and moved to Maynooth. During his time, he has been or continues to be on the Executive Committee of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain, the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the editorial board of the journal Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He is currently the President of the Irish Biblical Association.

We are very proud of Fr. Jeremy! The author of several books and many articles and essays in journals, he willingly returns to the Diocese at least twice a year in order to offer a formation day on Scripture to our clergy. His main interests are in the Book of Sirach, the Old Testament wisdom literature and biblical intertextuality. Last week he gave us a fascinating few hours on the first chapters of Isaiah.