Team 1: Christianity, Judaism, and Greco-Roman Thought

The team explores a broad set of issues related to recognition, partial and total rejection, extending from ancient philosophy to early Christianity up until 500 CE (including a look towards Islam). The team’s research focuses on the interaction between religious traditions – Judaism, early Christianity, Greco-Roman religions – and their usage of philosophical discourse, and their opinions concerning society, institutions, thought and practice. The period is formative to the European philosophical and religious terminology as well as to the cultural habits which later dominated the European religious scene.

Team Leaders

 dunderberg-i Ismo Dunderberg, Professor in New Testament Studies (University of Helsinki)
Early Christian Intellectuals after Conflict Theories
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 lehtipuu-o Outi Lehtipuu, University Lecturer in Greek (University of Helsinki)
Women and the Legacy of Paul: Gender and Recognition in Early Christianity
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Researchers

Vilja Alanko, Doctoral student
Stories of Feminine Becoming: Mothers and Daughters in Early Christian Hagiograph
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 hakola-r Raimo Hakola, Senior researcher
Coexistence and Rivalry: Archeology and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations in Galilee during the First Centuries CE
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 huttunen-n Niko Huttunen, Senior researcher
Mutual Recognition: Christians and the Roman Society until the Beginning of the 3rd Century
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 kahlos_m Maijastina Kahlos, Senior researcher
Waiting for Barbarians, Recognizing Immigrants, Making Romans: Roman Ambiguities and the Uses of ‘Barbarians’ in the Political, Social and Religious Struggles in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300-600)

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 miroshnikov-i Ivan Miroshnikov, Post-doctoral researcher
The Gospel of Thomas and Plato: A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the “Fifth Gospel”
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Marika Rauhala, Post-doctoral researcher (University of Oulu)
The Dynamics of Religious Prejudice in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Limits of Acceptance, Religious Identity and Images of Disapproval from the Fifth to the First Century BCE
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 salminen-j Joona Salminen, Post-doctoral researcher
Deification and Daily Life
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tervahauta-u Ulla Tervahauta, Assistant Professor in New Testament (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Post-doctoral researcher
Christians, Jews and Pagans in Egypt and Palestine, 300–600 CE
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toivanen-s Siiri Toiviainen, Post-doctoral researcher
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tolonen-al Anna-Liisa Rafael (Tolonen), Doctoral student
A Popular Story from the Past: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Witness to the Mother and Her Seven Sons
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 tuominen-m Miira Tuominen, University Lecturer in Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä); Senior researcher
On Recognition and Conflict between Pagan and Christian Philosophers in Late Antiquity
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Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, Post-doctoral researcher
Clement of Alexandria’s Position on Reincarnation
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