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Small amulets, large inscriptions on walls, and papyrus recipes reveal aesthetic experimentation with vowels and symbols and so-called nonsense language.” This is a context in which to understand discussion within the New Testament, particularly 1 Corinthians, of “speaking in tongues.” This talk will consider the limits of language in antiquity, using contemporary poetry on the violence of colonial language and recent study of speaking in tongues as an experiment at the limits of language.
The Areopagus, a rocky outcropping in Roman Athens, is a particularly potent site to think about justice
The lecture: Dress, Adornment and Coloniality of Gender and Desire in New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia is presented by Dr. Uroš Matić.
Justice or Righteousness? Discussing δικαιοσύνη in the light of ancient inscriptions
Paul and violence
The lecture: Notorious Cross-Dressers? (Re)styling Hercules and Omphale in Roman Antiquity is presented by Dr. Sarah Hollaender
The lecture: Levantine Seals between the Material, Sensory, and the Social: Archaeological, Iconographic, and Exegetical Perspectives on Beauty, Power, and Dress is presented by Dr. Bruno Biermann.
The lecture: Eye-paints in the Hebrew Bible: Looking for Meaning is presented by Dr. Susannah Rees.
The lecture: Blossoms for eternity – floral jewellery in ancient Egypt is presented by Dr. Melanie Wasmuth
The lecture: Bejeweled Biblical Animals: Constructing Gender with Non-Human Bling is presented by Dr. Laurence Darsigny-Trépanier and Dr. Anne Létourneau
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Welcome to the Spring Semester Graduation Ceremony!
Join us for an exciting seminar with Andreas Nordlander, who will be presenting material from his upcoming book on natural teleology.
Welcome to this Guest Lecture by Professor Leo Lefebure, Georgetown University. Respondent is Rev. Unapane Pemananda Thero, University of Hong Kong and REDI alumni at the Faculty of Theology, UiO.
Welcome to the book-launch of The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books and Parabiblica Coptica!
A crucial topic concerning migration is its many causes. In what ways is climate change and crisis factoring in human displacement? Who is expected to respond to the climate crisis?
Welcome to the Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies (ONTEC) with Cecilia Wassen, professor of the New Testament at Uppsala University.
One of the pioneers of the field now known as ‘Lived Religion’, Meredith McGuire, claims that attention to sensory experiences are of key importance when trying to understand how religion actually is lived.
Welcome to the Fall Semester Graduation Ceremony!
Panel conversation in the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 awarded to Narges Mohammadi.
Which are the positions, reflections of Christian churches in the current European migration context? How is theology responding to the permanent mobility of people trying to enter “Fortress Europe”?
The wordplay Po/et(h)ics captures the interrelatedness of ethics and aesthetics. Dorothea Erbele-Küster shall explain this concept along the lines of Psalm 34 by emphasizing the role sensory perceptions and emotions play in the text and in the reception process.
According to biblical texts, our relationship to the world, to others, to God and to ourselves is anchored in our human corporality and vulnerability. The lecture explores the fundamental role of the body for conceptualizing the anthropology of the Hebrew Bible. Insights from cultural anthropology and also phenomenological philosophy will be considered.
Welcome to the launching of the book Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies.
Parables of Jesus in the Third Reich: Antisemitic Bible Adaptation in the Volkstestament (Die Botschaft Gottes, 1940).
The candidates will each give an introductory lecture to the Faculty's master's course "Gender Perspectives on Religion and Theology".