Publications

On this page you'll find my research publications. Most of my writing is in English, but some Swedish books and articles are also listed below. The texts are sorted according to type and descending date: monographs, articles, reviews, etc. At the end you also find a list of conferences papers. Many texts are downloadable, just click on the link. 

På den här sidan hittar du mina forskningspublikationer. Jag skriver mestadels på engelska men här finns också en del böcker och artiklar på svenska. Texterna är listade med de nyaste första och sorterade i kategorier: böcker, artiklar, recensioner, etc.  På slutet finns också en lista på konferenspresentationer. Många texter kan laddas ner, klicka bara på länkarna.

Monographs

Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024.

[together with Rikard Roitto,] Revenge, Compensation and Forgiveness in the Ancient World: A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair. WUNT 515. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. 

Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: Supplement 1: Emotions and Hierarchies. Studia Theologica Holmiensia 35. Bromma: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, 2022.

Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition. Resources for Biblical Studies. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021.

Etik och retorik i Jesustraditionen: kognitiva och psyko-biologiska perspektiv. Stockholm: EHS, 2021.

Smuts, skam, status: Perspektiv på samkönad sexualitet i Bibeln och antiken. Göteborg: Makadam, 2018.

Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts. WUNT 320. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. 

Emotions in Biblical Law: A Cognitive Science Approach. HBM 36. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.

Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism. ConBNT 45. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. New reprint: Itero 4. Stockholm: EHS, 2021.

Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? ConBNT 38. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2002. Corrected reprint edition: Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. New reprint: Itero 2. Stockholm: EHS, (Itero), 2021.

Edited volumes

[together with Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson] Öppna vyer – lång sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg. Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, 2021.

Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok (Swedish Exegetical Annual), 2007–2013.

Articles and Book chapters

“Purity as Popular Practice: Erasing the Anachronistic Divide between Household and Cult”, in Jörg Frey and Lutz Doering (eds.), Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025, forthcoming).

“The Changing Character of the Torah: Jesus and the Scrolls.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 16 (2025): forthcoming in print, published online 2024.

“John’s Immersions: Ritual Purification, but from What?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 47 (2024), 218–43.

“Biblical Law and the New Testament”, in Bruce Wells (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 261–282.

“Malachi’s Metaphorical Divorce: Reading Marital Faithlessness as Cult Criticism with a Little Help from Blending Theory”, in David Davage, Mikael Larsson & Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds.), Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (JAJSup 36; Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023), 116–137.

“Jesus’s Interpretation of the Torah”, in Jens Schröter & Christine Jacobi (eds.), Robert Brawley (transl.), The Jesus Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022), 400–413.

“Retribution and Repair of Interpersonal Infringements in Voluntary Associations: Comparing Qumran, Greco-Roman collegia, and Early Christians”, in Thomas Kazen, Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: Supplement 1: Emotions and Hierarchies (Stockholm: EHS, 2022), 91–132.

“Altruism and Prosocial Ideals in the Sermon: Between Human Nature and Divine Potential”, in Rikard Roitto, Colleen Shantz & Petri Luomanen (eds.), Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount (London: Equinox, 2021), 82–109.

“Emotional Repression and Physical Mutilation? The Cognitive and Behavioural Impact of Exaggeration in the Sermon on the Mount”, in Rikard Roitto, Colleen Shantz & Petri Luomanen (eds.), Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount (London: Equinox, 2021), 133–73.

“Vida vidder: Om religionens rottrådar, andlighetens utgångspunkter och människans moral”, in Thomas Kazen & Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, Öppna vyer – lång sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg (Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, 2021), 13–39.

“The Origins and Transmission of the Texts; Which Text Belongs to the New Testament? The Canonization Process; Pious Forgeries or Necessary Reinterpretations? From Jesus Traditions to Gospels; For Whom Were the Texts Meant? The Historical Development of the Canon and Other Early Circulation of Texts”, in Dieter Mitternacht & Anders Runesson (eds.), Jesus, the New Testament, Christian Origins: Perspectives, Methods, Meanings (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021), 211–33.

“Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement”, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 46.4 (2021): 545–60.

“The Role of Law in the Formation of the Pentateuch and the Canon”, in Pamela Barmash (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 257–74.

“Emotional Fear in Pentateuchal Legal Collections”, in R. Nikolsky et al. (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis: Interpreting Minds (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 40-62.

“Viewing Oneself through Others’ Eyes: Shame between Biology and Culture in Biblical Texts”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 84 (2019), 51–80.

“Purity and Impurity in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism”, in Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies (online), 2019.

“Purification”, in R. Uro et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Rituals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 220–244.

“Levels of Explanation for Ideas of Impurity: Why Structuralist and Symbolic Models Often Fail While Evolutionary and Cognitive Models Succeed”, Journal of Ancient Judaism 9 (2018 [2019]): 74–99.

 “Emotional Ethics in Biblical Texts: Cultural Construction and Biological Bases of Morality”, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 6 (2017): 434–459.

“Disgust in Body, Mind, and Language: The Case of Impurity”, in F. Scott Spencer (ed.), Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions in Biblical Literature: Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature (Atlanta: SBL, 2017), 97–115.

“Jesu Interpretation der Tora”, in J. Schröter & C. Jacobi (eds.), Jesus Handbuch (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), 402–416.

“Sacrificial Interpretation in the Narratives of Jesus’ Last Meal”, in D. Hellholm et al. (eds.), Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship, and the Eucharist: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), 477–502.

“A Perhaps Less Halakic Jesus and Purity: On Prophetic Criticism, Halakic Innovation, and Rabbinic Anachronism”, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 14 (2016), 120–136.

 “Jehezkel”; ”Jekabzeel”; ”Jekameam”; ”Jekamiah”; ”Jekuthiel”; ”Jered”; ”Jeremoth”. Short articles in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016).

“Concern, Custom and Common Sense: Discharge, Hand-washing and Graded Purification”, in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 13 (2015), 150–187.

 “Purity / Impurity”, in R. Segal & K. von Stuckrad (eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 3:166–170.

“Purity and Persia”, in Roy E. Gane & Ada Taggar-Cohen (eds.), Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond (RBS; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015), 435–462.

“Theology: New Testament”, in Brent Strawn (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 2:384–400.

“The Role of Disgust in Priestly Purity Law: Insights from Conceptual Metaphor and Blending Theories”, Journal of Law, Religion and State 3 (2014), 62–92.

“Revelation, Interpretation, Tradition: Jesus, Authority and Halakic Development”, in S. Byrskog, T. Holmén, & M. Kankanniemi (eds.), The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices (WUNT 2:373; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), 127–160.

“Empathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as Basis for Moral Admonition”, in I. Czachesz & R. Uro (eds.), Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies (Bible World. Durham: Acumen, 2013), 213–234.

“Jesus and the Zavah: Implications for interpreting Mark”, in C. Ehrlich, A. Runesson & E. Schuller (eds.), Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber (WUNT 1:305; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 112–143.

“Self-Preserving and Other-Oriented Concerns in the Jesus Tradition” in S.-O. Back & M. Kankaanniemi (eds.), Voces Clamantium in Deserto: Essays in Honor of Kari Syreeni (Åbo: Teologiska fakulteten vid Åbo universitet, 2012), 124–148.

“Some Notes on Sacrificial Removal in Priestly Law”, in T. Davidovich (ed.), Plogbillar & svärd: En festskrift till Stig Norin (Stockholm: Molin & Sorgenfrei, 2012), 89–100.

“Moralische Emotionen in der Jesusüberlieferung. Ein psycho-biologischer Beitrag zum Verhältnis von Selbsterhaltung und Nächstenorientierung” Evangelische Theologie 71 (2011): 288–306.

“Jesus, Scripture and Paradosis: Response to Friedrich Avemarie: ‘Jesus and Halakhic Purity’”, in R. Bieringer, F. Garcia Martinez, D. Pollefeyt & P.J. Tomson (eds.), The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature (SupJSJ 136; Leiden: Brill, 2010), 281–288.

“4Q274, Fragment 1 Revisited – or Who Touched Whom? Further Evidence for Ideas of Graded Impurity and Graded Purifications”, Dead Sea Discoveries 17 (2010): 83–117.

“Evolution, Emotion and Exegesis: Disgust and Empathy in Biblical Texts on Moral and Ritual Issues”, in C.–R. Bråkenhielm (ed.), Linnaeus and Homo Religiosus: Biological Roots of Religious Awareness and Human Identity (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in Faiths and Ideologies 23. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2009), 191–218.

“Dirt and Disgust: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws”, in B.J. Schwartz & D.P. Wright (eds.), Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible (LHB/OTS 474; London: T&T Clark, 2008), 43–64.

“The Christology of Early Christian Practice”, Journal of Biblical Literature 127 (2008): 591–614.

“Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation”, in B. Holmberg & M. Winninge (eds.), Identity Formation in the New Testament (WUNT 227; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 97–122.

“Son of Man as Kingdom Imagery: Jesus between Corporate Symbol and Individual Redeemer Figure”, in T. Holmén (ed.), Jesus from Judaism to Christianity: Continuum Approaches to the Historical Jesus (ESCO/LNTS 352; London: T & T Clark, 2007), 87–108.

“Explaining Discrepancies in the Purity Laws about Discharges”, Revue Biblique 114 (2007): 348–371.

“The Coming Son of Man Revisited”, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 5 (2007): 157–176.

“Twenty Years after Sigal: Jesus as Proto-Rabbinic Teacher of Halakhah”, in Phillip Sigal, The Halakah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew (reprint edition; Studies in Biblical Literature 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007), 195–211.

“Standing Helpless at the Roar and Surging of the Sea: Reading Biblical Texts in the Shadow of the Wave”, Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology 60 (2006): 21–41.

“Här är inte man eller kvinna – var någonstans? Om Paulus eskatologiska asexualitet i en aveskatologiserad sexualiserad kontext”, in G. Gunner (ed.), På spaning… från Svenska kyrkans forskardagar 2005 (Forskning för kyrkan 3; Stockholm: Verbum, 2006), 119–135.

[together with MariAnne Ekedahl], “Induktiv teologi som meningsskapande: om erfarenhetens roll i själavård och texttolkning”, Tro & Liv, 65 (2006): 7–17.

“Tolkning och respekt: Om bibeltolkning och homosexualitet”, in L. Ingelstam, J. Jonsson & B. Åqvist (eds.), Spår av Gud: Vänbok till Valborg Lindgärde (Studia Theologica Holmiensia 14; THS, 2006), 182–194.

“The Good Samaritan and a Presumptive Corpse”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 71 (2006): 131–144.

“Texternas tillkomst och tradering” (part 4.1) in Dieter Mitternacht & Anders Runesson (eds.), Jesus och de första kristna. Inledning till Nya testamentet (Stockholm: Verbum, 2006), 180–200.

“Tidiga Jesusbilder: om erfarenheten bakom och framför kristologin”, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 81 (2005): 49–66.

“Response to Larry Hurtado: ‘To Live and Die for Jesus…’” (lecture at the Exegetical Day in Uppsala, 24/9 2004), Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 70 (2005): 333–338.

“Sectarian Gospels for Some Christians? Intention and Mirror Reading in the Light of Extra-Canonical Texts”, New Testament Studies 51 (2005): 561–578.

“Forskningens betydelse för grundutbildningen”, Tro & Liv 62/5 (2003): 15–23.

Book Reviews

Review of Paul J. DeHart, Unspeakable Cults: An Essay in Christology (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2021). Review of Biblical Literature 04/2024.

Review of Brett E. Maiden, Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion: New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). ARYS 20 (2022): 549–552.

Review of Tobias Hägerland, Messias och hans folk: Matteusevangeliet (Örebro: Libris, 2020). Svensk Kyrkotidning 117:2 (2021): 50–52.

Review of Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan, Den radikale Paulus: Kyrkans konservativa ikon som progressiv visionär (Helsingfors: Tomas von Martens, 2016). Svensk Kyrkotidning (2018).

Review of Elizabeth W. Goldstein, Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). Review of Biblical Literature 18 (2016).

Review of Thomas Hieke, Levitikus 1-15 (HthKat; Freiburg: Herder, 2014). Review of Biblical Literature 18 (2016).

Review of Eve Levavi Feinstein, Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Review of Biblical Literature 18 (2016).

Review of Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (New York: The New Press, 2012). Catholic Biblical Quarterly 78/4 (2016), 768.

Review of Mira Balberg, Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature (Berkeley, Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2014). History of Religions 55 (2015), 231-235.

Review of Susan Haber, “They Shall Purify Themselves”: Essays on Purity in Early Judaism (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008). Hebrew Studies Journal 56 (2015), 430-433.

Review of James D. G. Dunn, Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels (Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011). Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74 (2013).

Review of Hans Leander, Discourses of Empire: Mark’s Gospel from a Postcolonial Perspective (Göteborg: Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, University of Gothenburg, 2011). Sändaren (2012).

 “Dialog eller apologetik?” Review of Anders Runesson, O att du slet itu himlen och steg ner! Om Jesus, Jonas Gardell och Guds andedräkt (Artos/Libris, 2011). Svensk Kyrkotidning 108/1 (2012): 11–12.

Review of David A. Fiensy, Jesus the Galilean: Soundings in a First Century Life (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2007). Biblical Theology Bulletin 3 (2009): 172–173.

Review of William K. Gilders, Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power (London: John Hopkins, 2004). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 74 (2009): 221–223.

Review of Hannah K. Harrington, The Purity Texts (London/New York: T & T Clark, 2004) and Ian C. Werrett, Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden: Brill, 2007). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 74 (2009): 226–228.

Review of Bernard S. Jackson, Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 74 (2009): 238–240.

Review of Jay Sklar, Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement: The Priestly Conceptions (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2005). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 74 (2009): 269–271.

Review of Jonas Gardell, Om Jesus (Stockholm: Nordstedts, 2009). Tro & Liv 68/3 (2009): 48–52.

Review of Jonas Gardell, Om Jesus (Stockholm: Nordstedts, 2009). Finsk Tidskrift 6-7 (2009): 368–372.

Review of Clinton Wahlen, Jesus and the Impurity of Spirits in the Synoptic Gospels (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 73 (2008): 213–215.

Review of Roland Deines, Die Gerechtigkeit der Tora im Reich des Messias (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 73 (2008): 284–286.

Review of Magnus Zetterholm, Lagen som evangelium? Den nya synen på Paulus och judendomen (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2006). Svensk Kyrkotidning 14–15 (2007): 183–185.

”Födelsen av en ny tro?” Review of John Shelby Spong: En ny kristendom för en ny värld: Om den traditionella trons död och födelsen av en ny tro (Stockholm: Verbum, 2005). Tro & Liv, 65 (2006): 38–44.

Review of Martin Hengel & Anna Maria Schwemer, Der Messianische Anspruch Jesu und die Anfänge der Christologie, WUNT 138 (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2001). Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 81 (2005): 137–139.

Review of Birger Gerhardsson, Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity [1961] with Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity [1964] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998) samt Birger Gerhardsson, The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2001). Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 80 (2004): 136–138.

Review of Mark D. Nanos (red.), The Galatians Debate: Contemporary Issues in Rhetorical and Historical Interpretation (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2002). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 69 (2004): 294–297.

Review of Anders Sjöberg, Vem är den mannen? (Örebro: Libris, 1998). Svensk Kyrkotidning 99/23–24 (2003); Tro & Liv 62/3–4 (2003): 47–49

Review of Sven Hillert, Frälsning för alla? En biblisk vision (Stockholm: Verbum, 2002). Tro & Liv 62/5 (2003): 48–49.

Review of Bengt Holmberg, Människa och mer (Lund: Arcus, 2001), i Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 78/4 (2002): 189–191.

Translations

Jesper Bro Larsen, Jesus: En historisk crash course (Tro & Liv Bibel 3; Stockholm: EHS, 2023). Translation into Swedish.

Tracy Lemos, Våld och vapen i Bibelns värld och vår: Två essäer (Tro & Liv Bibel 1; Stockholm: EHS, 2020). Translation into Swedish.

Media

Swedish Radio series: "Som fan läser Bibeln", 2022–. https://sverigesradio.se/grupp/40629

Conference papers and presentations

“You Help Us Win if We Don’t Eat—Deal? Food Deprivation as Body Rhetoric in War.” Workshop on Warfare and Rhetoric in the Ancient World, Kristiansand, 5–7 June 2024.

“Roman Clemency versus Jewish(-Christian) Forgiveness: A Comparative Analysis.” [Together with Rikard Roitto.] SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 18-21 November 2023.

“John’s Immersions: Ritual Purifications, but from What?” Nordic New Testament Conference, Kristiansand, 10-13 June 2022.

“The Changing Role and Character of the Torah: Jesus and the Scrolls.” SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio (recorded lecture), 20–23 November 2021.

“John’s Immersions: Ritual Purifications, but from What?” Presentation at the Enoch Seminar (online) Nangeroni Meeting, 11-14 January 2021.

“Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement.” SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 23-26 November 2019.

“Emotioner och lag i regleringen av moraliska övertramp: en bibelvetare tolkar text utifrån ett evolutionärt perspektiv.” Umeå universitet 24 April 2019.

“Purity for the Sake of Heaven or Humanity: Erasing the Anachronistic Divide between Household and Cult”. 10^th Schwerter Qumrantagung: Reinheit im antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum, Schwerte, 10-12 February 2019

“Original Survival and Moral Repair: An Exegete Reads Ancient Experience with Evolutionary Theory”. Reclaiming Radical Theology: Sin and Grace in a Postsecular Age, Stockholm 7–9 November 2018.

“Viewing Oneself through Others’ Eyes: Shame between Biology and Culture in Biblical Texts”. Keynote lecture at the Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Stockholm, 8 October 2018.

“Apocalyptic Imagery and the Historical Jesus: Social and Emotional Functions of Myth and Metaphor”. CISSR, Bertinoro, 27–30 September 2018.

“Retributions and Repair of Norm Infringements in Qumran, Associations, and Paul”. SBL International Meeting, Helsinki, 30 July–3 August 2018.

“Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity”. University of Bristol, 18 June 2018.

 “Cognitive Frames of Morality in Antiquity”. Presentation together with Rikard Roitto. Nordic New Testament Conference, Reykjavik, 8-11 June 2018.

“Forgiveness and Revenge Between Biology and Culture: Applying Cognitive and Bio-Psychological Perspectives to Ancient Texts”. North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, 7 February 2018.

“Forgiveness and Revenge Between Biology and Culture: Applying Cognitive and Bio-Psychological Perspectives to Ancient Texts”. Symposium: Reconciliation. Umeå, 15–16 December 2017.

“Funktionell teism”. Bortom det övernaturliga, Stockholm, 16 October 2017.

“Between Human Nature and Divine Potential: Empathy, Altruism, and Non-Retaliation in Second Temple Texts”. World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 6–10 August 2017.

“Jesus and the Changing Role of Torah”. Reutlingen 30 June–1 July 2017.

“Lagens förändrade roll”. Research day, Stockholm, 3 February 2017.

“The Cognitive and Behavioural Impact of Hyperbole in the Jesus Tradition”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 19–22 November 2016.

Response at book review session (Joseph Lam: Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible, OUP, 2016). SBL Annual Meeting, 19–22 November 2016.

“A Perhaps Less Halakic Jesus and Purity: On Prophetic Criticism, Halakic Innovation, and Rabbinic Anachronism”. SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 21–24 November 2015.

Response to papers at the section Mind, Society, and Religion, SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 21–24 November 2015.

“Cause and Effect and Levels of Explanation for Ideas of Impurity: Why Structuralist and Symbolic Models Often Fail While Evolutionary and Cognitive Models Succeed”. Workshop: Jewish and Christian Rituals of Purification in Antiquity, Uppsala, 21–23 October 2015.

“The Emotional Force of Hyperbole: Evocative Effects of Literal Imagination in the Sermon on the Mount”. Nordic New Testament Conference, Aarhus, 29 May–2 June 2015.

“The Good Man Jesus and Philip Pullman’s Use of Sources”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 22–25 November 2014.

“Emotional Disgust and Conceptual Blending in Jewish Purity Law”. Law and Emotion in Comparative Perspective, Cardozo Law School, New York, 27–28 April 2014.

“Paul and Resurrection: A Stoic Perspective”. IFFEC Study trip, Athens, 4–11 January 2014.

“Persian Period Purity Practices”. SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 23–26 November 2013.

“The Synoptic Conflict Narratives in the Light of Halakhic Development”. SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 23–26 November 2013.

“Impurity and Disgust Once Again: Bodily Emotion and Conceptual Metaphor”. Body, Brain, Behaviour, Åbo Akademi, 16–18 May 2013.

“Apocalypticism as World View and Linguistic Metaphor: A Cognitive Approach to Jesus’ Utopian Language”. University of Sheffield, 29 April 2013.

“Jesus’ Conflicts within the Framework of Halakic Development”. University of Durham, 22 April 2013.

“Brains, Bodies and Behaviour: Finding More than Ideas Behind Religious Texts”. Panel discussion: CSR, A New Tool for Biblical Scholars, SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, 17–20 November 2012.

“Apocalypticism as World View and Linguistic Metaphor: Attempting a Cognitive Approach to Jesus’ Utopian Language”. SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, 17–20 November 2012.

“Jesus, Authority and Halakhic Development”. University of Cambridge, 23 October 2012.

“Why the Rush? Revisiting Jesus’ Apocalyptic Mission”. The Mission of Jesus: A Nordic Symposium on the Historical Jesus, Lund, 7–10 October 2012.

“Försoning, rättvisa, kompensation”. Symposium: Offer, Försoning, Förlåtelse, Stockholm, 26 September 2012.

Response to Stephen Finlan, Sacrificial Images in the New Testament. Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Uppsala, 24 September 2012.

Response to Bas van Os, Psychological Analyses and the Historical Jesus: New Ways to Explore Christian Origins. SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 19–22 November 2011.

“Emotions in Pentateuchal Legal Collections”. Cambridge University, 18 May 2011.

“Empati, rättvisa och försoning: Jesustraditionen och den mänskliga naturen i psyko-biologisk belysning”. Inauguration lecture. Stockholm, 23 March 2011.

“Emotions, Ritual and Morality in Pentateuchal Law”. Cognitive Science and the Bible: A Symposium about the Use of Methods from the Cognitive Sciences in Biblical Studies. Stockholm, 21–22 October 2010.

“Jesus as Teacher, Prophet, and/or Charismatic: The Locus of Authority and the Dangers of Crypto-Christology”. The Identity of Jesus – Nordic Symposium on the Historical Jesus, Åbo, 3–6 October 2010.

“Emotions in Biblical Law”. SBL International Meeting, Tartu, 25–29 July 2010.

“Emotional Fear in Pentateuchal Law”. SBL International Meeting, Tartu, 25–29 July 2010.

“Emotional Fear in Biblical Law Codes”. First International Workshop on the Cognitive Study of Religious Texts, Groningen, 2–4 March 2010.

“Skrift, tolkning, auktoritet? Frågan om motiv i Jesu konflikter kring samtida lagtolkning”. Church of Sweden Research Days, Stockholm, 2–3 December 2009.

“Meier’s Marginal Jew on Purity: Rethinking the Historical Evidence”. Review Session about John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew, vol. 2, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 20–24 November 2009.

“Impurity, Ritual and Emotion: A Psycho-Biological Approach”. Workshop on Ritual in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Helsinki, 26–29 August 2009.

“Sense of Justice: An Emotional Cognitive Science Approach to Ritual and Moral Reconciliation”. SBL International Meeting, Rome, 30 June–4 August 2009.

Respondent at the conference What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity, Boston, 19–21 November 2008.

“Scripture, Interpretation or Authority? Tracing the Motives in Jesus’ Conflicts on Legal Issues”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 17–20 November 2007.

“Emotions, Biblical Interpretation, and the Ethics of Ethnicity”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 17–20 November 2007.

“Daniel, Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation”. Nordic New Testament Conference, Helsingborg, 18–22 August 2007.

“Empathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as Basis for Moral Admonition”. SBL International Meeting, Vienna, 22–26 July 2007.

“Evolution, Emotion and Exegesis: Disgust and Empathy in Biblical Texts on Moral and Ritual Issues”. Linnaeus & Homo Religiosus, Uppsala, 30 May–2 June 2007.

“From Eschatology to Ethics and Back Again: The Coming Son of Man Revisited”. SBL Annual Meeting, Washington, 18–21 November 2006.

“The Christology of Early Christian Practice”. SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, 2–6 July 2006.

“Jesus, Scripture and Paradosis: Response to Friedrich Avemarie: ‘Jesus and Halakhic Purity’”. Response at colloquium: The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, Leuven 16–17 January 2006.

“Dirt and Disgust: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws”. SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 19–22 November 2005.

“När eskatologin blir etik: Människosonen som kollektiv gudsrikessymbol”. Exegetikens teologiska relevans, Stockholm, 11 November 2005.

“Här är inte man eller kvinna – Var någonstans? Om Paulus eskatologiska asexualitet i en aveskatologiserad sexualiserad kontext”. Church of Sweden Research Conference, Uppsala 17–18 October 2005.

“Son of Man as Kingdom Imagery: Jesus Between Corporate Symbol and Individual Redeemer Figure”. EABS Annual Meeting, Dresden, 7–10 August 2005.

“Standing Helpless at the Roar and Surging of the Sea: Reading Biblical Texts in the Shadow of the Wave”. SBL International Meeting, Singapore, 26 June–1 July 2005.

“The Good Samaritan and a Presumptive Corpse.” SBL International Meeting, Singapore, 26 June–1 July 2005.

“Explaining Discrepancies in the Purity Laws about Discharges”. SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 20–23 November 2004.

“Response to Larry Hurtado, ‘To Live and Die for Jesus: Social and Political Consequences of Devotion to Jesus in Early Christianity’”, Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Uppsala, 23 September 2004.

“Kanonförsamlingar och papyrussekter? Några tankar kring texters intention, reception och tillkomstmiljö”. Nordic New Testament Conference, Stavanger, 14–18 June 2003.