Academic interests
My primary interests lie within Late Antique and Medieval literature and religion of the Christian and Islamic communities within the East Roman and later Islamic world. I have been working especially with Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic texts, both Christian and Islamic. Hagiography, historiography and genres of Bible and Qur’anic interpretation (exegetical literature and Rewritten literature) are my main focuses among this literature.
At the moment, I’m working on a project about different juxtaposed apocryphal traditions about the Creation of Man within the Coptic religio-cultural sphere including the Copto-Arabic literature and its Ethiopic receptions. In addition, I’m working on a new text edition of the Coptic translation of Athanasius’ 39th Festal Letter.
Background
I have a MA degree in the Study of Religion and Classics from Aarhus University. From the same institution I received the PhD degree in Theology (Church History) for a dissertation on the Syriac cults of the Himyarite Martyrs from the South Arabian city of Najran. I have had longer research stays at Durham and Oxford.
Partners
Postdoc at the ERC-funded APOCRYPHA project.