Tim’s publications and other scholarly activity


Forthcoming
Davy, Tim J. ‘Towards a Missional Reading of Ecclesiastes’ (forthcoming in edited volume by Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament study group).
Davy, Tim J. ‘Hope for and Through Vulnerable Children in the Old Testament’. Chapter for a planned Festschrift for Gordon McConville. Material presented at 2021 Tyndale OT Study Group meeting.
Davy, Tim. J. ‘Blessing, “Shalom” and Lament: Biblical perspectives on Child Spirituality.’ In edited volume: Perspectives on Children, Religion, and Development.
Study Bible notes on Job and Zephaniah

2025
Bradley Thompson, Christine Karanja, María Alejandra Andrade Vinueza, and Tim J. Davy, edited by Lucy Kajidori, ‘Towards a Biblical and Theological Framework for Child Participation in the Missio Dei.’ Lausanne Occasional Paper 82. Lausanne, 2025.

2024
Davy, Tim. J. ‘Connecting a Missional Reading of Psalm 10 with the Trafficking, Abuse, and Exploitation of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in Europe.’ In Stepping Out of the Traffick: Pausing for Theological Reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, edited by Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette, 135–154. Oxford: Regnum, 2024
Davy, Tim J. ‘Orphan, Orphans (Christianity, Africa and Latin America)’ entry in Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception (De Gruyter)

2023
‘Missional readings of the Bible: looking back and looking forward’ paper recorded for Global Mission Forum held in Korea.
‘The Stories We Tell and Why They Matter’ co-written chapter (with Kimberly Drage) in Pubols and Whiteman (eds), Essentials for People Care and Development: A Collection of Best Practices, Research, Reflections, and Strategies. This material had previously been presented by my co-author at the 2022 Missio Nexus annual gathering.
‘Reading Genesis 1–12 within the Context of Mission to, for, with and by Vulnerable Children’’ paper given at Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group, High Leigh conference centre.
Plenary speaker at World Without Orphans European gathering in Sofia, Bulgaria. Spoke on ‘God’s Heart for Children’.

2022
Presented at Mission Research Network Mission Studies Day: ‘Lament, Joy, and a Missional Reading of Job’.

2021
‘Vulnerable Children in the Old Testament’ Bible study notes for Guidelines (BRF)
Speaker at World Without Orphans (Europe) virtual event: ‘Unseen Children in the Bible’

2020
Davy, Tim J. The Book of Job and the Mission of God: A Missional Reading. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020.
Davy, Tim J. ‘Vulnerable Children and missio Dei in a Digital Sphere’ in Jonas Kurlberg and Peter M. Phillips, eds. Missio Dei in a Digital Age (SCM), pp. 223-235

2019
Co-presented (with Karen Eakins) on theology of safeguarding in international contexts at Global Connections event, Safeguarding in an International Context
Lecture in OCMS Montague Barker Lecture series, ‘Missional Hermeneutics: trends, problems, and what the next decade will bring’
Co-presented a session (with Rosalee Velloso Ewell) on ‘Gospel and Culture’ at ‘Beyond the Boundaries: A Conversation Towards a Disability Missiology’ Conference hosted by OCMS, OMF and TiO; Oxford.

2018
‘Adoption in the Bible’ Bible study notes for Guidelines (BRF)

2017
‘Biblical Theology of Mission’ unit designed and developed for Ridley Online (June 2016 – February 2017); Unit launched with Tim as the its online tutor (Feb – June 2017)
Gave paper at Trinity College, Bristol, Doctoral Research Seminar: ‘Reading the Book of Job Missionally, with Special Reference to Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children’
Plenary session being given at the annual conference of the Norwegian Council for Mission and Evangelism (NORME), Oslo: ‘The Authority of the Bible and its Consequences for Mission’
Article in Encounters Mission Journal, ‘Hostility, Hospitality and Hope: A Biblical Reflection on Two Displaced Children’
Co-wrote (with Mark Walley) KLICE Ethics in Brief, Vol. 22 no. 5: ‘Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Shaping A Church Response’
Paper at Coventry University, Faith in the Care System conference: ‘The Bible and Vulnerable Children: Christian Scripture as Inspiration and Challenge’
Public lecture at Ridley College, Melbourne: ‘Reading the Bible in Light of the Global Refugee Crisis’

2016
‘Missional Hermeneutics Bibliography’, co-written with Michael Goheen, in Reading the Bible Missionally (Eerdmans). Now curated and updated at https://bibleandmission.org.uk/missional-hermeneutics-bibliography/
Paper at Global Connections Mission Educators Forum: ‘Bible and Mission after Bosch’
Paper at Tyndale Fellowship OT Group ‘Looking for Orphans: approaches for understanding the place of vulnerable children in the Old Testament’
‘Job’ Bible study notes for Guidelines (BRF)
Speaker at Global Mission Conference, London: ‘Reading Scripture as an Invitation to Global Mission’
World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Global Consultation, Panama. ‘Ted’-style ‘MissioTalk’: ‘The Book of Job: Finding polycentric mission in unlikely biblical places’
Seminar for local churches at Redcliffe College: ‘Making it Missional: a fresh approach to preaching, reading and studying the Bible’

2015
Day seminar given at London Institute of Contemporary Mission: ‘Wrestling with the Big Questions: A Day in Job’ (January)
Paper given at Vulnerable Mission conference held at Redcliffe College: ‘The Book of Job and the Vulnerability of Mission’ (March)
Paper given at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies: A Missional Reading of the Book of Job, with special reference to children in the UK care system (December)