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Biblical Intersections: Local Identities and Global Contexts

Campus Stavanger, room TBA. The event will also be streamed. See link below.
May 27th 2025, 12:00 – 16:00

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The seminar features papers by biblical scholars from the research group CollECT (Collective on Epistemology, Context and Text). These papers will be presented at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden in June.

The 2025 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting and the 2025 European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference will take place as a joint meeting at Uppsala University 23-27 June. Nine scholars from VID’s research group CollECT will give papers at the conference. The “pre-SBL seminar” has become a tradition, giving VID colleagues and CollECT members an opportunity to hear the conference papers, and the presenters a chance to finetune their presentations.

Program

12:00	Welcome
12:10	Myriam Razanamaro: Doing Womanist Research as an African Woman in the Nordic Context (panel participation)
12:15	Tina Dykesteen Nilsen and Ida Eltervaag: Creator God: Genesis 1-3 and Sámi Contexts in Dialogue
12:45	Karin Hakalax: The Laius Complex in Job: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Sacrifice in the Book of Job
13:15	Helge Ask: Rebellious Angels in the Context of Empire
13:45	Ntozakhe Simon Cezula: Identity Formation in Genesis 17 and Acts 15: Insights from Social Identity and Covariation Theories
14:15	Break
14:30	Leonardo Marcondes Alves: The Bearer of the Letter: Return Migration and the Canonization of the Pauline Epistles
15:00	Brury Eko Saputra: Imitate Me (Μιμηταί Μου)! Reading 1 Cor 11:1 in Light of the Roman Auctoritas and the Chinese Guānxì (關係)-Miànzi (面子) Concepts
15:30	Anna Rebecca Solevåg: Bodies, Boundaries and Epidemic Discourse: Using Contagion to Think With during the Cyprianic Plague

In case of an unforseen cancellation, the back-up presenter is:

Beth Elness-Hanson: Ground of Being and Center of Hope: Reading Psalm 37 with the Maasai

The CollECT research group was fortunate to have members with second paper proposals accepted. Here we acknowledge their scholarship:

Brury Eko Saputra: I Am to Whom I Relate: A Preliminary Guānxì (關係) Social Identity Reading of the Shema in 1 Cor 8–10
Tina Dykesteen Nilsen: Hope and Courage: Reception in a Context of Environmental and Indigenous Concerns

Contact

Anna Rebecca Solevåg. Telefon: +47 51 51 62 44