Nu har registreringen öppnat för ISBL/EABS i Uppsala 23-27/6 2025. Vi erbjuder hela 8 lokala sessioner, varav några görs i samverkan med existerande paneler. Programmet kommer att uppdateras.
Contributions and challenges of gender approaches in Nordic biblical studies
In collaboration with Status of Women in the Profession Committee (SBL).
What does it mean to do research related to gender and sexualities in the Nordic countries, a region known for its advocacy of equal rights and for its secularism? Which are the trends and tendencies, ups and downs, contributions and challenges of such scholarship in this specific context? The session sets up a conversation between different generations of scholars, between the Nordic countries and between the various approaches to the field, such as classic and intersectional feminism, womanism, masculinity studies and queer theory. How does the legacy of the Nordic pioneers live on and what can we anticipate as the future of the discipline (right here)?
Jorunn Økland (University of Oslo): “Internationalisation of Biblical Scholarship - A Challenge to the Distinct, Nordic Legacy of Gender Studies?“ (10 min)
Halvor Moxnes (University of Oslo ): “Jesus in gender trouble. The problem of masculinities in Jesus-studies.” (10 min)
Mikael Larsson (Uppsala University): “Feminism and reception studies: the legacy of Inger Ljung” (10 min)
Moona Kinnunen (Helsinki University): "Queering the Way: How to Bridge the Academic Gap Between Queer and Biblical Studies" (10 min)
Myriam Razanamaro (VID Specialized University, Stavanger): "Doing Womanist Research as an African Woman in the Nordic context." (10 min)
Panel discussion (30 min). Moderator: Gillian Glass (Aarhus University)
Session chair: Anna Rebecca Solevåg (VID Specialized University, Stavanger)
Cognitive Science Perspectives in Nordic Biblical Studies (2 sessions)
In the past two decades, scholars in the Nordic countries have pioneered the heuristic use of cognitive sciences in Biblical Studies. Fields explored for their potential to shed new light on Biblical texts include social identity theory, cognitive linguistics, blending, cognitive ritual theory, evolutionary psychology, cultural epidemiology, and research on emotions. The present session highlights ongoing research in this direction by Nordic scholars.
First session:
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (Oslo University): “The Application and Integration of CSR-Based Ritual Theories in Biblical Studies” (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Aldar Nõmmik (Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm): “Usefulness of Cognitive Science of Religion in NT Exegesis: 1 Cor 11:2–16 as a Test Case” (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Lisa Plantin (Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm): “Blending Theory and Metaphors in Job 1:21 and Job 39”
(20 min + 10 min discussion)
Chair: Thomas Kazen (Stockholm School of Theology)
Second session
Nina Nikki (Umeå University): “Towards Quantifying and Experimenting Early Christianity in Cultural Evolution” (20 min + 10 min discussion)
István Czachesz (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway): “Theological Ratcheting in Nascent Christianity: Communal Meals and the Jesus Tradition of the Gospels” (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Rikard Roitto (Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm): “Cultural and innate aspects of morality in the first century” (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Chair: Thomas Kazen (Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm)
Bible Translations in Sweden 2025 - Sami, Meänkieli and Swedish
The South Sami translation is the first complete New Testament and the most comprehensive book in South Sami ever published. The overall aim of the project was to create a standard for good literary South Sami. The Swedish NT translation will be published exactly 500 years after the first Swedish NT appeared in 1526. Two of the main ambitions are terminological coherence and a fair description of different contemporary ideologies and cultural habits i Antiquity.Both the Lule Sami translation and the Meänkieli translation are projects that will produce the first full bibles (OT and NT) in their respective languages.
Mikael Winninge (Swedish Bible Society, Uppsala): “South Sami and Swedish New Testaments” (30 min)
Ann Christin Skoglund (Umeå University): “Lule Sami Old Testament” (15 min)
Anders Alapää (independent scholar, translator, Korpilombolo): ”The Bible in Meänkieli” (15 min)
Panel Discussion (30 min)
Moderator and session chair: Karin Tillberg (Church of Sweden’s national office, Uppsala)
Oral-Performative and Written Traditions about the Prophet Elijah
Elijah is known for his saga in 2 Kings, continued by that of his alter-hero Elisha. The 18 contributors to the volume From Prophet to Miracle-Working Saint: Dynamic Approaches to Elijah in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, edited by Vlad Bedros, Barbara Crostini, Andrei Dumitrescu and Chana Sacham-Rosby (Brill, 2025) have both paid attention to aspects of the biblical text and its reflection into the Gospels, and to the continuation of practices of commemoration and their actualization in different cultures and times affecting the transformation of Elijah’s stories in Jewish, Christian and Islamic contexts. The panel seeks to bring these conversations together by asking whether the written tradition can better be understood when taking the other contributions to Elijah’s popularity into consideration, drawing from the various faith traditions and media in which Elijah is remembered and displayed, from theatrical versions to pictorial programmes.
Barbara Crostini (Newman institute, Uppsala): “Introduction: Written, Oral-Performative and Visual Traditions about Elijah” (5 min)
Presentations (35 min)
Stephen Germany (University of Lausanne): “Political Prophet, Wonder Worker, and Trailblazer: The Figure of Elijah in Biblical Tradition”
Carl Johan Berglund, (Åbo Akademi/ Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm), “Elijah as an Archetype for the Apostles in the Apocryphal Acts”
David Cielontko (Charles University, Prague): “Elijah in the Lives of the Prophets”
Eleonora Serra (Lausanne University): “Helias or Helios? The Prophet Elijah as the God Helios in Christian and Jewish Literary and Iconographic Traditions”
Responses (30 min)
Antti Laato (Åbo Akademi), Dr Alicia Hein (Tübingen University)
Chair: Barbara Crostini (Newman Institute, Uppsala)
Discussion (20 min)
Conversation
With Göran Eidevall (Uppsala University) and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ALT School of Theology, Örebro)
Moderator: Blaženka Scheuer (Lund University)
Conversation
With Cecilia Wassén (Uppsala University)
Moderator: Sophia Johnson (University of Cambridge)
Organized by SBL:s Status of Women in the Profession Committee.
“Apocalyptic Literature” (SBL)
Jayne Svenungsson (Lund university): “Introduction of the research program ‘At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present’”
Blaženka Scheuer (Lund university): “Secret Knowledge and Sealed Books: Secrecy in Biblical Apocalypses” (15 min)
Natalie Bloch (Lund university): “The Temple as a State in Mind – Intersections of Sensory Experience, Cognitive Processes, and Religious Imaginaries in Jewish Ascent Apocalypses.” (20 min)
Tobias Hägerland (Gotheborg University) and Katarina Pålsson (Lund university): “From Justin to Jerome: Othering Processes in the Early Reception of the Book of Revelation” (20 min)
Joel Kuhlin (Lund university): “The Apocalyptic Imaginary and Malcolm X's Revolutionary Rhetoric: Analyzing the Book of Revelation.” (15 min)
Chair: Cecilia Wassén (Uppsala University)
“Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics in the Twenty-First Century” (EABS)
"New developments in political Bible use in the Nordic context"
Panel discussion with Karin Neutel (Umeå University), Terje Stordalen (University of Oslo), Samuel Auler (Lund University) and Brennan Breed (Columbia Theological Seminary).
Chair: Hanna Liljefors (Lund University)
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