The overview below shows a selection of the faculty's academic publication. If you wish to order these, you can find links to the publisher's website on the individual publication.
The discoveries of Coptic books containing “Gnostic” scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism.
The volume Approaching the Dead: Studies on Mortuary Ritual in the Ancient World is about the social interaction of the living with the dead, as reflected in the textual and archaeological records of ancient societies.
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities.
This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism", as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities.
For clergy, scholar, and lay person, Paul's letters hold weight and continue to draw in new readers.
The present volume focuses on the Coptic parabiblical texts – those texts that do not belong to the Bible but fall in its orbit – which include not only the Apocrypha but also the works of the Apostolic Fathers.
Befriending the North Wind – Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death.
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated.
The volume offers a new critical reflection on the use of the Bible in contemporary cultural and political debates in the Nordic countries.
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.
This is a different book about Jesus. It does not study the Gospels as sources for the historical Jesus, but reads them as memories about Jesus, each Gospel with its characteristic picture of Jesus.
Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups.
The authors presented in this volume deal with important cases of Protestantization of religion or of debates on religion.
This volume presents a detailed introduction to the post-Reformation church topography of Norway. Around 140 epitaphs are preserved in all parts of Norway from the period 1550 to 1700, and are in this volume documented with illustrations, descriptions and short biographies.
Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did this historical caesura influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy up to the twenty-first century?
The contributions in the present volume explore in various ways potentialities and problems linked to imagination's role in the context of religion.
A unique introduction to the developing field of Theology and Qualitative Research. The book includes a chapter from Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen.
This open access book, edited by Anne Hege Grung, contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as "plural spiritual care and chaplaincy".
Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents their world views and perspectives.
The book "Global kristendom" from 2018 is now revised and translated to English.
Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen has contributed to the book with the chapter "Empirical practical-theological research – Exploring cultural-historical activity theory".
An introduction to the New Testament in its historical context, with an overview of interpretative approaches and exegetical exercises.
The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.
Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort.
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