{"id":148,"date":"2021-12-30T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:59:05","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/index.php\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this page you&#8217;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e5 den h\u00e4r sidan hittar du mina forskningspublikationer. Jag skriver mestadels p\u00e5 engelska men h\u00e4r finns ocks\u00e5 en del b\u00f6cker och artiklar p\u00e5 svenska. Texterna \u00e4r listade med de nyaste f\u00f6rsta och sorterade i kategorier: b\u00f6cker, artiklar, recensioner, etc. &nbsp;P\u00e5 slutet finns ocks\u00e5 en lista p\u00e5 konferenspresentationer. M\u00e5nga texter kan laddas ner, klicka bara p\u00e5 l\u00e4nkarna.<\/p>\n<p>Monographs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eerdmans.com\/9780802884343\/dirt-shame-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><em>Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World.&nbsp;<\/em>Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[together with Rikard Roitto,]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohrsiebeck.com\/en\/book\/revenge-compensation-and-forgiveness-in-the-ancient-world-9783161624650\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><em>Revenge, Compensation and Forgiveness in the Ancient World:&nbsp;A Comparative Study of&nbsp;Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair. <\/em>WUNT 515. T\u00fcbingen:&nbsp;Mohr Siebeck, 2024.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moral <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Supplement-1-ebok-korrigerad.pdf\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Infringement and Repair in Antiquity:&nbsp;<\/em>Supplement 1: <em>Emotions and Hierarchies. <\/em>Studia Theologica Holmiensia 35. Bromma: Enskilda H\u00f6gskolan Stockholm, 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=SSpHEAAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;hl=sv&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><em>Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition.&nbsp;<\/em>Resources for Biblical Studies. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kazen-Etik-och-retorik-i-Jesustraditionen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Etik och retorik i Jesustraditionen: kognitiva och psyko-biologiska perspektiv.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Stockholm: EHS, 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makadambok.se\/produkt\/smuts-skam-status-perspektiv-pa-samkonad-sexualitet-i-bibeln-och-antiken\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><em>Smuts, skam, status: Perspektiv p\u00e5 samk\u00f6nad sexualitet i Bibeln och antiken.<\/em> G\u00f6teborg: Makadam, 2018.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/4665975\/Scripture_Interpretation_or_Authority_Motives_and_Arguments_in_Jesus_Halakic_Conflicts\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus\u2019 Halakic Conflicts.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">WUNT 320. T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldphoenix.com\/product\/emotions-in-biblical-law-a-cognitive-science-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><em>Emotions in Biblical Law: A Cognitive Science Approach.&nbsp;<\/em>HBM 36. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ths.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1807532\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><em>Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism. <\/em>ConBNT 45. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. New reprint: Itero 4. Stockholm: EHS, 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ths.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1807523\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><em>Jesus and Purity <\/em>Halakhah: <em>Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? <\/em>ConBNT 38. Stockholm: Almqvist &amp; Wiksell International, 2002. Corrected reprint edition: Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. New reprint: Itero 2. Stockholm: EHS, (Itero), 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited volumes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ths.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:2067025\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">[with Josef Forsling and Lisa Plantin] <em>N\u00f6dv\u00e4ndighetens teologi: En v\u00e4nbok till \u00c5ke Viberg. <\/em>Stockholm: Enskilda H\u00f6gskolan Stockholm, 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ths.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1596606\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">[with Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson] <em>\u00d6ppna vyer \u2013 l\u00e5ng sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg. <\/em>Stockholm: Enskilda H\u00f6gskolan Stockholm, 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u200b<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exegetiskasallskapet.se\/sea\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>(Swedish Exegetical Annual), 2007\u20132013.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles and Book chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cBiblical Law and Emotion,\u201d in Ari Mermelstein and Katherine M. Hockey (eds.), <em>The T &amp; T Clark Handbook on the Bible and Emotion <\/em>(London: T &amp; T Clark, forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cApproaches to Law among Early Jesus Followers as Reflections of Early Jewish Attitudes: Turning a Prejudiced Paradigm on Its Head,\u201d in Christina Eschner et al (eds.), <em>Israel, the Nations, and the Early Christians: On the Significance of Judaism for Christianity <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cExperiencing the Real through the Imagined: Reading Mythic-Apocalyptic Imagery as Expressions of Sensory Reactions with a Little Help from Ernst Cassirer and Blending Theory,\u201d in Nils Neumann et al. (eds.), <em>The Body, Emotions, and Religious Experience<\/em> (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht, forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ths.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:2067025\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cFr\u00e5n Tora till lag: Hur grekisk och romersk jurisdiktion p\u00e5verkade intra-judiska debatter\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">, in Thomas Kazen, Josef Forsling, and Lisa Plantin (eds.), <em>N\u00f6dv\u00e4ndighetens teologi: En v\u00e4nbok till \u00c5ke Viberg <\/em>(Stockholm: Enskilda H\u00f6gskolan Stockholm, 2026), 185\u2013202.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetorah.com\/article\/torah-law-wasnt-originally-authoritative\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">[with Hilary Lipka] \u201cTorah Law Wasn\u2019t Originally Authoritative,\u201d in <em>thetorah.com. <\/em>2026.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25-Purity-as-Popular-Practice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPurity as Popular Practice: Erasing the Anachronistic Divide between Household and Cult\u201d, in Lutz Doering, J\u00f6rg Frey, and Laura von Bartenwerffer (eds.), <em>Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts <\/em>(WUNT 528; T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025), 193\u2013220.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bibleinterp.arizona.edu\/articles\/highly-hierarchical-history-same-sex-relationships-biblical-world\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">\u201cA Highly Hierarchical History: Same-Sex Relationships in the Biblical World\u201d, in <em>The Bible and Interpretation<\/em> (online), 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25-The-Changing-Character-of-the-Torah-JAJ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">\u201cThe Changing Character of the Torah: Jesus and the Scrolls.\u201d <em>Journal of Ancient Judaism <\/em>16.1 (2025): 73\u2013100.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0142064X241242716\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span>\u201cJohn\u2019s Immersions: Ritual Purification, but from What?\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal for the Study of the New Testament<\/em> 47 (2024), 218\u201343<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/cambridge-companion-to-law-in-the-hebrew-bible\/biblical-law-and-the-new-testament\/5A04E67F7341BB9FAA80727E40E88E84#\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cBiblical Law and the New Testament\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">, in Bruce Wells (ed.), <em>Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 261\u2013282.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/edcollchap\/book\/9783657793969\/BP000016.xml\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cMalachi\u2019s Metaphorical Divorce: Reading Marital Faithlessness as Cult Criticism with a Little Help from Blending Theory\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">, in David Davage, Mikael Larsson &amp; Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds.), <em>Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond <\/em>(JAJSup 36; Paderborn: Brill Sch\u00f6ningh, 2023), 116\u2013137.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=58jnzgEACAAJ&amp;dq\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span>\u201cJesus\u2019s Interpretation of the Torah\u201d, in Jens Schr\u00f6ter &amp; Christine Jacobi (eds.), Robert Brawley (transl.),&nbsp;<em>The Jesus Handbook&nbsp;<\/em>(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022), 400<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinoxpub.com\/home\/view-chapter\/?id=32049\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span>\u2013<\/span><\/a>413.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaskazen.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Supplement-1-ebok-korrigerad.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cRetribution and Repair of Interpersonal Infringements in Voluntary Associations: Comparing Qumran, Greco-Roman <em>collegia<\/em>, and Early Christians\u201d, in Thomas Kazen, <em>Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: <\/em>Supplement 1:<em> Emotions and Hierarchies <\/em>(Stockholm: EHS, 2022), 91\u2013132.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinoxpub.com\/home\/view-chapter\/?id=32044\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cAltruism and Prosocial Ideals in the Sermon: Between Human Nature and Divine Potential\u201d, in Rikard Roitto, Colleen Shantz &amp; Petri Luomanen (eds.), <em>Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount<\/em> (London: Equinox, 2021), 82\u2013109.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinoxpub.com\/home\/view-chapter\/?id=32049\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotional Repression and Physical Mutilation? The Cognitive and Behavioural Impact of Exaggeration in the Sermon on the Mount\u201d, in Rikard Roitto, Colleen Shantz &amp; Petri Luomanen (eds.), <em>Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount<\/em> (London: Equinox, 2021), 133\u201373.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1596608\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cVida vidder: Om religionens rottr\u00e5dar, andlighetens utg\u00e5ngspunkter och m\u00e4nniskans moral\u201d, in Thomas Kazen &amp; Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, <em>\u00d6ppna vyer \u2013 l\u00e5ng sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg <\/em>(Stockholm: Enskilda H\u00f6gskolan Stockholm, 2021), 13\u201339.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=-JO_zQEACAAJ&amp;dq\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe 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\u201d, in Dieter Mitternacht &amp; Anders Runesson (eds.), <em>Jesus, the New Testament, Christian Origins: Perspectives, Methods, Meanings<\/em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021), 211\u201333.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0309089220963421\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cLaw and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement\u201d, <em>Journal for the Study of the Old Testament <\/em>46.4 (2021): 545\u201360.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/edited-volume\/34224\/chapter\/290208241\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Role of Law in the Formation of the Pentateuch and the Canon\u201d, in Pamela Barmash (ed.), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 257\u201374.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=rMrcswEACAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;hl=sv#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotional Fear in Pentateuchal Legal Collections\u201d, in R. Nikolsky et al. (eds.), <em>Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis: Interpreting Minds <\/em>(London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 40-62.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1376463\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cViewing Oneself through Others\u2019 Eyes: Shame between Biology and Culture in Biblical Texts\u201d, <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok<\/em> 84 (2019), 51\u201380.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordbibliographies.com\/view\/document\/obo-9780199840731\/obo-9780199840731-0178.xml\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPurity and Impurity in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\u201d, in <em>Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies<\/em> (online), 2019.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-oxford-handbook-of-early-christian-ritual-9780198747871?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPurification\u201d, in R. Uro et al. (eds.), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Rituals<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 220\u2013244.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vr-elibrary.de\/doi\/10.13109\/jaju.2018.9.1.75\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Levels of Explanation for Ideas of Impurity: Why Structuralist and Symbolic Models Often Fail While Evolutionary and Cognitive Models Succeed\u201d, <em>Journal of Ancient Judaism<\/em> 9 (2018 [2019]): 74\u201399.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohrsiebeck.com\/en\/article\/emotional-ethics-in-biblical-texts-cultural-construction-and-biological-bases-of-morality-101628219222717x15235367195631?no_cache=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;\u201cEmotional Ethics in Biblical Texts: Cultural Construction and Biological Bases of Morality\u201d, <em>Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel<\/em> 6 (2017): 434\u2013459.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=Yek5DwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;hl=sv#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cDisgust in Body, Mind, and Language: The Case of Impurity\u201d, in F. Scott Spencer (ed.), <em>Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions in Biblical Literature: Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature <\/em>(Atlanta: SBL, 2017), 97\u2013115.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohrsiebeck.com\/buch\/jesus-handbuch-9783161538537?no_cache=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesu Interpretation der Tora\u201d, in J. Schr\u00f6ter &amp; C. Jacobi (eds.), <em>Jesus Handbuch<\/em> (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), 402\u2013416.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohrsiebeck.com\/buch\/the-eucharist-its-origins-and-contexts-9783161562228?no_cache=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSacrificial Interpretation in the Narratives of Jesus\u2019 Last Meal\u201d, in D. Hellholm et al. (eds.), <em>Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship, and the Eucharist: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity<\/em> (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), 477\u2013502.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/journals\/jshj\/14\/2\/article-p120_3.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cA Perhaps Less Halakic Jesus and Purity: On Prophetic Criticism, Halakic Innovation, and Rabbinic Anachronism\u201d, <em>Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus<\/em> 14 (2016), 120\u2013136.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;\u201cJehezkel\u201d; \u201dJekabzeel\u201d; \u201dJekameam\u201d; \u201dJekamiah\u201d; \u201dJekuthiel\u201d; \u201dJered\u201d; \u201dJeremoth\u201d. Short articles in <em>The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception <\/em>(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cConcern, Custom and Common Sense: Discharge, Hand-washing and Graded Purification\u201d, in <em>Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus <\/em>13 (2015), 150\u2013187.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;\u201cPurity \/ Impurity\u201d, in R. Segal &amp; K. von Stuckrad (eds.), <em>Vocabulary for the Study of Religion <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, 2015), 3:166\u2013170.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPurity and Persia\u201d, in Roy E. Gane &amp; Ada Taggar-Cohen (eds.), <em>Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond<\/em> (RBS; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015), 435\u2013462.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cTheology: New Testament\u201d, in Brent Strawn (ed.), <em>The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law <\/em>(New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 2:384\u2013400.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Role of Disgust in Priestly Purity Law: Insights from Conceptual Metaphor and Blending Theories\u201d, <em>Journal of Law, Religion and State<\/em> 3 (2014), 62\u201392.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cRevelation, Interpretation, Tradition: Jesus, Authority and Halakic Development\u201d, in S. Byrskog, T. Holm\u00e9n, &amp; M. Kankanniemi (eds.), <em>The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices <\/em>(WUNT 2:373; T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), 127\u2013160.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmpathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as Basis for Moral Admonition\u201d, in I. Czachesz &amp; R. Uro (eds.), <em>Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies<\/em> (Bible World. Durham: Acumen, 2013), 213\u2013234.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus and the <em>Zavah<\/em>: Implications for interpreting Mark\u201d, in C. Ehrlich, A. Runesson &amp; E. Schuller (eds.), <em>Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber <\/em>(WUNT 1:305; T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 112\u2013143.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSelf-Preserving and Other-Oriented Concerns in the Jesus Tradition\u201d in S.-O. Back &amp; M. Kankaanniemi (eds.), <em>Voces Clamantium in Deserto: Essays in Honor of Kari Syreeni <\/em>(\u00c5bo: Teologiska fakulteten vid \u00c5bo universitet, 2012), 124\u2013148.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSome Notes on Sacrificial Removal in Priestly Law\u201d, in T. Davidovich (ed.), <em>Plogbillar &amp; sv\u00e4rd: En festskrift till Stig Norin <\/em>(Stockholm: Molin &amp; Sorgenfrei, 2012), 89\u2013100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cMoralische Emotionen in der Jesus\u00fcberlieferung. Ein psycho-biologischer Beitrag zum Verh\u00e4ltnis von Selbsterhaltung und N\u00e4chstenorientierung\u201d <em>Evangelische Theologie <\/em>71 (2011): 288\u2013306.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus, Scripture and <em>Paradosis<\/em>: Response to Friedrich Avemarie: \u2018Jesus and Halakhic Purity\u2019\u201d, in R. Bieringer, F. Garcia Martinez, D. Pollefeyt &amp; P.J. Tomson (eds.), <em>The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature<\/em> (SupJSJ 136; Leiden: Brill, 2010), 281\u2013288.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201c4Q274, Fragment 1 Revisited \u2013 or Who Touched Whom? Further Evidence for Ideas of Graded Impurity and Graded Purifications\u201d, <em>Dead Sea Discoveries<\/em> 17 (2010): 83\u2013117.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEvolution, Emotion and Exegesis: Disgust and Empathy in Biblical Texts on Moral and Ritual Issues\u201d, in C.\u2013R. Br\u00e5kenhielm (ed.), <em>Linnaeus and Homo Religiosus: Biological Roots of Religious Awareness and Human Identity <\/em>(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in Faiths and Ideologies 23. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2009), 191\u2013218.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cDirt and Disgust: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws\u201d, in B.J. Schwartz &amp; D.P. Wright (eds.), <em>Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible <\/em>(LHB\/OTS 474; London: T&amp;T Clark, 2008), 43\u201364.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Christology of Early Christian Practice\u201d, <em>Journal of Biblical Literature<\/em> 127 (2008): 591\u2013614.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSon of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation\u201d, in B. Holmberg &amp; M. Winninge (eds.), Identity Formation in the New Testament (WUNT 227; T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 97\u2013122.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSon of Man as Kingdom Imagery: Jesus between Corporate Symbol and Individual Redeemer Figure\u201d, in T. Holm\u00e9n (ed.), <em>Jesus from Judaism to Christianity: Continuum Approaches to the Historical Jesus <\/em>(ESCO\/LNTS 352; London: T &amp; T Clark, 2007), 87\u2013108.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cExplaining Discrepancies in the Purity Laws about Discharges\u201d, <em>Revue Biblique <\/em>114 (2007): 348\u2013371.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Coming Son of Man Revisited\u201d, <em>Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus <\/em>5 (2007): 157\u2013176.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cTwenty Years after Sigal: Jesus as Proto-Rabbinic Teacher of Halakhah\u201d, 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\u2013211.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cStanding Helpless at the Roar and Surging of the Sea: Reading Biblical Texts in the Shadow of the Wave\u201d, <em>Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology <\/em>60 (2006): 21\u201341.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cH\u00e4r \u00e4r inte man eller kvinna \u2013 var n\u00e5gonstans? Om Paulus eskatologiska asexualitet i en aveskatologiserad sexualiserad kontext\u201d, in G. Gunner (ed.), P\u00e5 spaning\u2026 fr\u00e5n Svenska kyrkans forskardagar 2005 (Forskning f\u00f6r kyrkan 3; Stockholm: Verbum, 2006), 119\u2013135.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">[together with MariAnne Ekedahl], \u201cInduktiv teologi som meningsskapande: om erfarenhetens roll i sj\u00e4lav\u00e5rd och texttolkning\u201d, <em>Tro &amp; Liv<\/em>, 65 (2006): 7\u201317.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cTolkning och respekt: Om bibeltolkning och homosexualitet\u201d, in L. Ingelstam, J. Jonsson &amp; B. \u00c5qvist (eds.), Sp\u00e5r av Gud: V\u00e4nbok till Valborg Lindg\u00e4rde (Studia Theologica Holmiensia 14; THS, 2006), 182\u2013194.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Good Samaritan and a Presumptive Corpse\u201d, <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>71 (2006): 131\u2013144.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cTexternas tillkomst och tradering\u201d (part 4.1) in Dieter Mitternacht &amp; Anders Runesson (eds.), <em>Jesus och de f\u00f6rsta kristna. Inledning till Nya testamentet <\/em>(Stockholm: Verbum, 2006), 180\u2013200.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cTidiga Jesusbilder: om erfarenheten bakom och framf\u00f6r kristologin\u201d, <em>Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift<\/em> 81 (2005): 49\u201366.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cResponse to Larry Hurtado: \u2018To Live and Die for Jesus\u2026\u2019\u201d (lecture at the Exegetical Day in Uppsala, 24\/9 2004), <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>70 (2005): 333\u2013338.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSectarian Gospels for Some Christians? Intention and Mirror Reading in the Light of Extra-Canonical Texts\u201d, <em>New Testament Studies <\/em>51 (2005): 561\u2013578.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cForskningens betydelse f\u00f6r grundutbildningen\u201d, <em>Tro &amp; Liv <\/em>62\/5 (2003): 15\u201323.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Review of Paul J. DeHart,&nbsp;<em>Unspeakable Cults: An Essay in Christology<\/em>&nbsp;(Waco: Baylor University Press, 2021).&nbsp;<em>Review of Biblical Literature&nbsp;<\/em>04\/2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Brett E. Maiden, <em>Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion: New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). <em>ARYS <\/em>20 (2022): 549\u2013552.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">Review of Tobias H\u00e4gerland,&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">Messias och hans folk: Matteusevangeliet <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">(\u00d6rebro: Libris, 2020). <\/span><em style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">Svensk Kyrkotidning <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-weight: var(--g-regular-weight,normal);\">117:2 (2021): 50\u201352.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Marcus J. Borg &amp; John Dominic Crossan, <em>Den radikale Paulus: Kyrkans konservativa ikon som progressiv vision\u00e4r<\/em> (Helsingfors: Tomas von Martens, 2016). <em>Svensk Kyrkotidning <\/em>(2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Elizabeth W. Goldstein, <em>Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible<\/em> (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). <em>Review of Biblical Literature<\/em> 18 (2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Thomas Hieke, <em>Levitikus 1-15 <\/em>(HthKat; Freiburg: Herder, 2014). <em>Review of Biblical Literature <\/em>18 (2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Eve Levavi Feinstein, <em>Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). <em>Review of Biblical Literature<\/em> 18 (2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (New York: The New Press, 2012). <em>Catholic Biblical Quarterly <\/em>78\/4 (2016), 768.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Mira Balberg, <em>Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature<\/em> (Berkeley, Los Angeles\/London: University of California Press, 2014). <em>History of Religions <\/em>55 (2015), 231-235.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Susan Haber, \u201cThey Shall Purify Themselves\u201d: Essays on Purity in Early Judaism (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008). Hebrew Studies Journal 56 (2015), 430-433.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of James D. G. Dunn, <em>Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels <\/em>(Grand Rapids\/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011). <em>Catholic Biblical Quarterly <\/em>74 (2013).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Hans Leander, <em>Discourses of Empire: Mark\u2019s Gospel from a Postcolonial Perspective <\/em>(G\u00f6teborg: Institutionen f\u00f6r litteratur, id\u00e9historia och religion, University of Gothenburg, 2011)<em>. <\/em><em>S\u00e4ndaren <\/em>(2012)<em>. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;\u201cDialog eller apologetik?\u201d Review of Anders Runesson, <em>O att du slet itu himlen och steg ner! Om Jesus, Jonas Gardell och Guds andedr\u00e4kt <\/em>(Artos\/Libris, 2011)<em>. Svensk Kyrkotidning<\/em> 108\/1 (2012): 11\u201312.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">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\u2013173.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of William K. Gilders, <em>Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power <\/em>(London: John Hopkins, 2004). <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>74 (2009): 221\u2013223.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><a name=\"_Hlk71814188\" style=\"outline: none;\">Review of Hannah K. Harrington, <em>The Purity Texts <\/em>(London\/New York: T &amp; T Clark, 2004) and Ian C. Werrett, <em>Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, 2007). <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>74 (2009): 226\u2013228.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Bernard S. Jackson, <em>Essays on <\/em>Halakhah<em> in the New Testament <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, 2008). <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>74 (2009): 238\u2013240.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Jay Sklar, <em>Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement: The Priestly Conceptions<\/em> (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2005). <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>74 (2009): 269\u2013271.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Jonas Gardell, <em>Om Jesus<\/em> (Stockholm: Nordstedts, 2009). <em>Tro &amp; Liv <\/em>68\/3 (2009): 48\u201352.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Jonas Gardell, <em>Om Jesus<\/em> (Stockholm: Nordstedts, 2009). <em>Finsk Tidskrift <\/em>6-7 (2009): 368\u2013372.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Clinton Wahlen, Jesus and the Impurity of Spirits in the Synoptic Gospels (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok 73 (2008): 213\u2013215.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Roland Deines, Die Gerechtigkeit der Tora im Reich des Messias (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok 73 (2008): 284\u2013286.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Magnus Zetterholm, <em>Lagen som evangelium? Den nya synen p\u00e5 Paulus och judendomen <\/em>(Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2006). <em>Svensk Kyrkotidning <\/em>14\u201315 (2007): 183\u2013185.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201dF\u00f6delsen av en ny tro?\u201d Review of John Shelby Spong: En ny kristendom f\u00f6r en ny v\u00e4rld: Om den traditionella trons d\u00f6d och f\u00f6delsen av en ny tro (Stockholm: Verbum, 2005). Tro &amp; Liv, 65 (2006): 38\u201344.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Martin Hengel &amp; Anna Maria Schwemer, <em>Der Messianische Anspruch Jesu und die Anf\u00e4nge der Christologie, <\/em>WUNT 138 (T\u00fcbingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2001). <em>Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift<\/em>, 81 (2005): 137\u2013139.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Birger Gerhardsson, <em>Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity <\/em>[1961] with <em>Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity <\/em>[1964] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998) samt Birger Gerhardsson, <em>The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition <\/em>(Peabody: Hendrickson, 2001). <em>Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift <\/em>80 (2004): 136\u2013138.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Mark D. Nanos (red.), <em>The Galatians Debate: Contemporary Issues in Rhetorical and Historical Interpretation <\/em>(Peabody: Hendrickson, 2002). <em>Svensk Exegetisk \u00c5rsbok <\/em>69 (2004): 294\u2013297.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Anders Sj\u00f6berg, <em>Vem \u00e4r den mannen? <\/em>(\u00d6rebro: Libris, 1998). <em>Svensk Kyrkotidning <\/em>99\/23\u201324 (2003); <em>Tro &amp; Liv <\/em>62\/3\u20134 (2003): 47\u201349<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Sven Hillert, <em>Fr\u00e4lsning f\u00f6r alla? En biblisk vision <\/em>(Stockholm: Verbum, 2002). <em>Tro &amp; Liv <\/em>62\/5 (2003): 48\u201349.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Review of Bengt Holmberg, <em>M\u00e4nniska och mer <\/em>(Lund: Arcus, 2001), i <em>Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift <\/em>78\/4 (2002): 189\u2013191.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesper Bro Larsen,&nbsp;<em>Jesus: En historisk crash course&nbsp;<\/em>(Tro &amp; Liv Bibel 3; Stockholm: EHS, 2023). Translation into Swedish.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Lemos, <em>V\u00e5ld och vapen i Bibelns v\u00e4rld och v\u00e5r: Tv\u00e5 ess\u00e4er <\/em>(Tro &amp; Liv Bibel 1; Stockholm: EHS, 2020). Translation into Swedish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Media<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swedish Radio series: &#8220;Som fan l\u00e4ser Bibeln&#8221;, 2022\u2013. https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/grupp\/40629<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference papers and presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cMatthew in a World of Apocalyptic Myth: Emotions and Conceptual Blending in Matthew\u2019s Expansions and Reworkings.\u201d Paper at the Nordic New Testament Conference, Uppsala, 12\u201315 June 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cNot the End of the World: Reading Apocalyptic Imagery with Cassirer and Blending Theory.\u201d Paper in the Apocalyptic Literature section at the SBL International Meeting, Uppsala, 23-27 June 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cApproaches to Law among Early Christ Followers as Reflections of Early Jewish Attitudes: Turning a Prejudiced Paradigm on Its Head.\u201d Paper at Studientagung \u201cIsrael, die V\u00f6lker und die fr\u00fchen Christusgl\u00e4ubigen: Zur Bedeutung des Judentums f\u00fcr das Christentum,\u201d Erlangen, 9-11 April 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cExperiencing the Real through the Imagined: Reading Mythic-Apocalyptic Imagery as Expressions of Sensory Reactions with a Little Help from Ernst Cassirer and Blending Theory.\u201d Paper at \u201cThe Body, Emotions, and Religious Experience in the New Testament: International Expert Meeting,\u201d Hannover, 11\u201313 February 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cReading Wisdom and Apocalyptic Texts with Cognitive Science.\u201d Response to session at SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 23\u201326 November 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cYou Help Us Win if We Don\u2019t Eat\u2014Deal? Food Deprivation as Body Rhetoric in War.\u201d Workshop on Warfare and Rhetoric in the Ancient World, Kristiansand, 5\u20137 June 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cRoman Clemency versus Jewish(-Christian) Forgiveness: A Comparative Analysis.\u201d [Together with Rikard Roitto.] SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 18-21 November 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJohn\u2019s Immersions: Ritual Purifications, but from What?\u201d Nordic New Testament Conference, Kristiansand, 10-13 June 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Changing Role and Character of the Torah: Jesus and the Scrolls.\u201d SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio (recorded lecture), 20\u201323 November 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJohn\u2019s Immersions: Ritual Purifications, but from What?\u201d Presentation at the Enoch Seminar (online) Nangeroni Meeting, 11-14 January 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cLaw and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement.\u201d SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 23-26 November 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotioner och lag i regleringen av moraliska \u00f6vertramp: en bibelvetare tolkar text utifr\u00e5n ett evolution\u00e4rt perspektiv.\u201d Ume\u00e5 universitet 24 April 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPurity for the Sake of Heaven or Humanity: Erasing the Anachronistic Divide between Household and Cult\u201d. 10<sup>th<\/sup> Schwerter Qumrantagung: Reinheit im antiken Judentum und fr\u00fchen Christentum, Schwerte, 10-12 February 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cOriginal Survival and Moral Repair: An Exegete Reads Ancient Experience with Evolutionary Theory\u201d. Reclaiming Radical Theology: Sin and Grace in a Postsecular Age, Stockholm 7\u20139 November 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cViewing Oneself through Others\u2019 Eyes: Shame between Biology and Culture in Biblical Texts\u201d. Keynote lecture at the Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Stockholm, 8 October 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cApocalyptic Imagery and the Historical Jesus: Social and Emotional Functions of Myth and Metaphor\u201d. CISSR, Bertinoro, 27\u201330 September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cRetributions and Repair of Norm Infringements in Qumran, Associations, and Paul\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Helsinki, 30 July\u20133 August 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cDynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity\u201d. University of Bristol, 18 June 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;\u201cCognitive Frames of Morality in Antiquity\u201d. Presentation together with Rikard Roitto. Nordic New Testament Conference, Reykjavik, 8-11 June 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cForgiveness and Revenge Between Biology and Culture: Applying Cognitive and Bio-Psychological Perspectives to Ancient Texts\u201d. North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, 7 February 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cForgiveness and Revenge Between Biology and Culture: Applying Cognitive and Bio-Psychological Perspectives to Ancient Texts\u201d. Symposium: Reconciliation. Ume\u00e5, 15\u201316 December 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cFunktionell teism\u201d. Bortom det \u00f6vernaturliga, Stockholm, 16 October 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cBetween Human Nature and Divine Potential: Empathy, Altruism, and Non-Retaliation in Second Temple Texts\u201d. World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 6\u201310 August 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus and the Changing Role of Torah\u201d. Reutlingen 30 June\u20131 July 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cLagens f\u00f6r\u00e4ndrade roll\u201d. Research day, Stockholm, 3 February 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Cognitive and Behavioural Impact of Hyperbole in the Jesus Tradition\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 19\u201322 November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Response at book review session (Joseph Lam: <em>Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible<\/em>, OUP, 2016). SBL Annual Meeting, 19\u201322 November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cA Perhaps Less Halakic Jesus and Purity: On Prophetic Criticism, Halakic Innovation, and Rabbinic Anachronism\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 21\u201324 November 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Response to papers at the section Mind, Society, and Religion, SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 21\u201324 November 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cCause and Effect and Levels of Explanation for Ideas of Impurity: Why Structuralist and Symbolic Models Often Fail While Evolutionary and Cognitive Models Succeed\u201d. Workshop: Jewish and Christian Rituals of Purification in Antiquity, Uppsala, 21\u201323 October 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Emotional Force of Hyperbole: Evocative Effects of Literal Imagination in the Sermon on the Mount\u201d. Nordic New Testament Conference, Aarhus, 29 May\u20132 June 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Good Man Jesus and Philip Pullman\u2019s Use of Sources\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 22\u201325 November 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotional Disgust and Conceptual Blending in Jewish Purity Law\u201d. Law and Emotion in Comparative Perspective, Cardozo Law School, New York, 27\u201328 April 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPaul and Resurrection: A Stoic Perspective\u201d. IFFEC Study trip, Athens, 4\u201311 January 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cPersian Period Purity Practices\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 23\u201326 November 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Synoptic Conflict Narratives in the Light of Halakhic Development\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 23\u201326 November 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cImpurity and Disgust Once Again: Bodily Emotion and Conceptual Metaphor\u201d. Body, Brain, Behaviour, \u00c5bo Akademi, 16\u201318 May 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cApocalypticism as World View and Linguistic Metaphor: A Cognitive Approach to Jesus\u2019 Utopian Language\u201d. University of Sheffield, 29 April 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus\u2019 Conflicts within the Framework of Halakic Development\u201d. University of Durham, 22 April 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cBrains, Bodies and Behaviour: Finding More than Ideas Behind Religious Texts\u201d. Panel discussion: CSR, A New Tool for Biblical Scholars, SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, 17\u201320 November 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cApocalypticism as World View and Linguistic Metaphor: Attempting a Cognitive Approach to Jesus\u2019 Utopian Language\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, 17\u201320 November 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus, Authority and Halakhic Development\u201d. University of Cambridge, 23 October 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cWhy the Rush? Revisiting Jesus\u2019 Apocalyptic Mission\u201d. The Mission of Jesus: A Nordic Symposium on the Historical Jesus, Lund, 7\u201310 October 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cF\u00f6rsoning, r\u00e4ttvisa, kompensation\u201d. Symposium: Offer, F\u00f6rsoning, F\u00f6rl\u00e5telse, Stockholm, 26 September 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Response to Stephen Finlan, Sacrificial Images in the New Testament. Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Uppsala, 24 September 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Response to Bas van Os, <em>Psychological Analyses and the Historical Jesus: New Ways to Explore Christian Origins.<\/em> SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 19\u201322 November 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotions in Pentateuchal Legal Collections\u201d. Cambridge University, 18 May 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmpati, r\u00e4ttvisa och f\u00f6rsoning: Jesustraditionen och den m\u00e4nskliga naturen i psyko-biologisk belysning\u201d. Inauguration lecture. Stockholm, 23 March 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotions, Ritual and Morality in Pentateuchal Law\u201d. Cognitive Science and the Bible: A Symposium about the Use of Methods from the Cognitive Sciences in Biblical Studies. Stockholm, 21\u201322 October 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus as Teacher, Prophet, and\/or Charismatic: The Locus of Authority and the Dangers of Crypto-Christology\u201d. The Identity of Jesus \u2013 Nordic Symposium on the Historical Jesus, \u00c5bo, 3\u20136 October 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotions in Biblical Law\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Tartu, 25\u201329 July 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotional Fear in Pentateuchal Law\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Tartu, 25\u201329 July 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotional Fear in Biblical Law Codes\u201d. First International Workshop on the Cognitive Study of Religious Texts, Groningen, 2\u20134 March 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSkrift, tolkning, auktoritet? Fr\u00e5gan om motiv i Jesu konflikter kring samtida lagtolkning\u201d. Church of Sweden Research Days, Stockholm, 2\u20133 December 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cMeier\u2019s Marginal Jew on Purity: Rethinking the Historical Evidence\u201d. Review Session about John P. Meier, <em>A Marginal Jew<\/em>, vol. 2, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 20\u201324 November 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cImpurity, Ritual and Emotion: A Psycho-Biological Approach\u201d. Workshop on Ritual in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Helsinki, 26\u201329 August 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSense of Justice: An Emotional Cognitive Science Approach to Ritual and Moral Reconciliation\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Rome, 30 June\u20134 August 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Respondent at the conference What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity, Boston, 19\u201321 November 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cScripture, Interpretation or Authority? Tracing the Motives in Jesus\u2019 Conflicts on Legal Issues\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 17\u201320 November 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmotions, Biblical Interpretation, and the Ethics of Ethnicity\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 17\u201320 November 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cDaniel, Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation\u201d. Nordic New Testament Conference, Helsingborg, 18\u201322 August 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEmpathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as Basis for Moral Admonition\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Vienna, 22\u201326 July 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cEvolution, Emotion and Exegesis: Disgust and Empathy in Biblical Texts on Moral and Ritual Issues\u201d. Linnaeus &amp; Homo Religiosus, Uppsala, 30 May\u20132 June 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cFrom Eschatology to Ethics and Back Again: The Coming Son of Man Revisited\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Washington, 18\u201321 November 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Christology of Early Christian Practice\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, 2\u20136 July 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cJesus, Scripture and <em>Paradosis<\/em>: Response to Friedrich Avemarie: \u2018Jesus and Halakhic Purity\u2019\u201d. Response at colloquium: The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, Leuven 16\u201317 January 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cDirt and Disgust: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 19\u201322 November 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cN\u00e4r eskatologin blir etik: M\u00e4nniskosonen som kollektiv gudsrikessymbol\u201d. Exegetikens teologiska relevans, Stockholm, 11 November 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cH\u00e4r \u00e4r inte man eller kvinna \u2013 Var n\u00e5gonstans? Om Paulus eskatologiska asexualitet i en aveskatologiserad sexualiserad kontext\u201d. Church of Sweden Research Conference, Uppsala 17\u201318 October 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cSon of Man as Kingdom Imagery: Jesus Between Corporate Symbol and Individual Redeemer Figure\u201d. EABS Annual Meeting, Dresden, 7\u201310 August 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cStanding Helpless at the Roar and Surging of the Sea: Reading Biblical Texts in the Shadow of the Wave\u201d. SBL International Meeting, Singapore, 26 June\u20131 July 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cThe Good Samaritan and a Presumptive Corpse.\u201d SBL International Meeting, Singapore, 26 June\u20131 July 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cExplaining Discrepancies in the Purity Laws about Discharges\u201d. SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 20\u201323 November 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cResponse to Larry Hurtado, \u2018To Live and Die for Jesus: Social and Political Consequences of Devotion to Jesus in Early Christianity\u2019\u201d, Exegetical Day (Swedish Exegetical Society), Uppsala, 23 September 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">\u201cKanonf\u00f6rsamlingar och papyrussekter? N\u00e5gra tankar kring texters intention, reception och tillkomstmilj\u00f6\u201d. Nordic New Testament Conference, Stavanger, 14\u201318 June 2003.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this page you&#8217;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. 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