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"The Book of Chronicles: Rewritten History?"

The Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies proudly presents Dr. Holger Zellentin, Lecturer in Classical Rabbinic Judaism at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

The Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies proudly presents Dr. Brent Nongbri, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Wally V. Cirafesi  will defend his doctoral dissertation: "John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel"  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.

"John within Hellenism? A critical assessment of recent arguments for locating the Gospel of John within a Greco-Roman conceptual and cultural framework (philosophy, imperial discourse, literary genre, Greek language, etc.)."

Dominic Amonzem will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Gendering Marriage: Exploring Kasena Marriage Practices in North-East Ghana"  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.

"Interrogating gender and religion through seniority, language and liminality in Kasena marriage rituals (Northern Ghana)".

In this seminar, Gudme considers how a detailed study of hospitality in a Mediterranean-type society, such as the Hebrew Bible, can help contemplate hospitality and reception of strangers in contemporary Scandinavia.

This lecture explores the relationship between hospitality and violence in the Hebrew Bible and it examines the role, function and literary use of hospitality in these texts.

"Reflections on sexuality and race in South African faith communities".

Professors Janet R. Walton and Claudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary, New York, give the 7th Aasta Hansteen Lecture on Gender and Religion:

"We are all strangers. Rehearsing another way of being in the world through worship"

Professor Leif E. Vaage is the second lecturer in the new series Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies. Vaage is Professor of New Testament at Emmanuel college of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Dr. Andrew Krause is the first lecturer in the new series Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies. Krause is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Exzellenzcluster “Religion und Politik” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Brigitte Kalh is Professor in the New Testament at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Cand.theol. Ole Jakob Løland will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Pauline Refigurations. A Study in the Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Jacob Taubes and Slavoj Žižek" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.

Ole Jakob Løland's trial lecture: "Jacob Taubes og Slavoj Žižek both articulate the figure of Paul as an 'anti-liberal' figure of 'radical politics'. Why and how do these articulations, in both instances, become so thoroughly wrapped up with legacies of anti-Judaism?"

Samuel Etikpah will defend his doctoral dissertation: "The Kundum And Mother River Festivals: Exploring Ritual, Interreligious Collaboration And Community Development In Jomoro, Ghana"  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.

The title of the trial lecture is: Account for the internal organization of the Kundum festival as an ordered whole in terms of the different modes of ritual speaking it mobilizes (mythological narratives, singing, liturgical pronouncements, fundraising speeches, etc.).

The Research project ‘Death in Early Protestant Tradition’ invites to a concluding conference in beautiful surroundings at Utstein Monastery, located at the southwest coast of Norway. 

Early Modern Oratio Funebris and the funeralsermon

In collaboration with dr. Otfried Czaika at the National Library of Sweden, the project arranged an excursion to selected libraries and churches.

The project "Death in Early Protestant Tradition" invites to a half day seminar, followed by lunch.

How to understand the early protestant funeral sermon genre in relation to the Ars Moriendi genre? How to understand the differences between danish and german funeral sermons?

"Holy life and holy death. Changing conceptions of holiness in the reformation"