CSTT-member Jutta Jokiranta, team leader of CSTT team 4, will give one of the Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity tomorrow (Fri March 11), which are organised by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction. Her lecture is entitled:
Social sciences meet biblical studies: Conversations with social identity and magical agency Continue reading Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: “Social sciences meet biblical studies”
Mitä pyhä on? Miten ihmiset etsivät tarkoitusta pyhistä teksteistä? Mistä uskonnolliset tarinat tulevat? Miten nämä tarinat ovat merkityksellisiä nykyihmisille? Continue reading British Libraryn oppimisympäristö valottaa pyhiä tekstejä
This blogpost is based on Hanna Tervanotko’s article “Members of Levite Family and Ideal Marriages in Aramaic Levi Document, Visions of Amram and Jubilees”, Revue de Qumrân 106 (2015), 155–176. To download an open access pre-print version of the article, click here. Continue reading “Members of Levite Family and Ideal Marriages”
Huippuyksikössä tehtävä työ oli jälleen keskeisesti esillä Suomen Eksegeettisen Seuran (SES) vuosittain järjestämässä Eksegeettisessä päivässä. Tämän vuotisen päivän teemana oli ”Sota, rauha ja Raamattu”, ja puolet päivän kuudesta esitelmöitsijästä oli huippuyksikön jäseniä. TT Kirsi Valkama avasi päivän puhumalla piirityssodankäynnistä rautakauden Juudassa, ja aamupäivää jatkoi tohtorikoulutettava Hanna Vanonen pyhää sotaa Raamatussa ja Qumranin kääröissä käsitelleellä esitelmällään. Iltapäivällä PhD Jason Silverman käsitteli sodan ja rauhan kysymyksiä persialaisaikana. Continue reading Tutkimus valottaa sodan ja rauhan kysymyksiä
By Tero Alstola
What connects ancient Judean exiles with the San Francisco Bay Area? The answer is the University of California Berkeley and Dr Laurie E. Pearce, one of the leading scholars in the study of the Babylonian exile of Judeans. In her recent book (Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer, Bethesda: CDL, 2014) co-authored with Cornelia Wunsch, Pearce published hundred documents from mid-first millennium BCE Babylonia pertaining to Judean exiles. These clay tablets are economic documents such as contracts and promissory notes that provide us with information on the everyday lives of the Judean community living in Al-Yahudu, “Town of Judah”, and its surroundings. Continue reading Studying Ancient Judeans by San Francisco Bay
A workshop at the University of Helsinki, 3-4 December, 2016
Keynote speakers:
> Prof. Katell Berthelot (CNRS, France)
> Prof. Joan Taylor (King’s College London, UK)
The goal of the workshop is to contribute to the discussion what was Hellenistic Judaism. The presentations of the meeting will contextualize Jewish texts dealing with kingship and power taking into account that Judaism and Hellenism are not two separate entities; rather, Jewish texts were written within their various Hellenistic contexts. The plural “Hellenistic contexts” highlights the numerous forms that Judaism took in the late second temple period.
More information to follow about the call for papers during the summer 2016.
The workshop is organized by the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions” (cstt.fi)
You are cordially invited to the first session of the CSTT Lecture Series, to be held this coming Thursday, 11 February, from 16-18 in the Faculty Room (5th floor), Faculty of Theology, Helsinki. Continue reading CSTT Lecture Series: “When Did the Pentateuch Become a Book?” (Drew Longacre)
Philo of Alexandria is the most important representative of
Hellenistic diaspora Judaism. His writings, devoted to a large extent to the allegorical exegesis of the Books of Moses, profoundly influenced Christian theology during its formative centuries. The strong element of Greek philosophy in Philo’s thought has been recognized since antiquity, but his relation to the Pythagorean-Platonic tenet of reincarnation has been a neglected, even avoided, topic in research. This book tackles the issue head on and with thorough, detailed research confirms the view—common in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries—that Philo accepted the doctrine even though he preferred not to speak openly about it. The book shows how allegorization enabled Philo to give an interpretation involving reincarnation to very different scriptural passages.
Heikki Räisänen, professor emeritus of New Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki, passed away on December 30, 2015. Continue reading Professor emeritus Heikki Räisänen, 1941–2015
Valomerkki.fi -sivuston lukijoita on puhuttanut tatuoinnit ja se ottaako Raamattu kantaa tatuointeihin. Kolmannen Mooseksen kirjan kohtaa 19:28 käytetään joissain uskonnollisissa piireissä perustelemaan, miksi iholle ei saisi ottaa tatuointeja. Continue reading Mainitaanko Vanhassa testamentissa tatuoinnit?
