About | Members
ABOUT
Team 3 investigates the methodological relationship between literary criticism (Literarkritik) and other methodologies of Biblical and related studies. The starting point will be the changes observed in the Hebrew scriptures by literary criticism, but it engages documented evidence of textual witnesses, thus deepening our understanding of how to investigate texts where documented evidence is not available. It also investigates the interrelationship between changes in the texts and changes in the society, religion and history as witnessed by other methodologies, such as archaeology and Near Eastern studies. The ultimate goal is to ask, how integral and necessary literary criticism is for investigating ancient Israel and Yehud.
MEMBERS
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Juha Pakkala, University Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Hebrew
pakkala@yahoo.de |
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Handbook of Editing (with Reinhard Müller); Kinneret: Final Publication of Bronze and Iron II remains (with Wolfgang Zwickel) |
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Literary criticism, Redaction criticism, Methodological issues, Ezra-Nehemiah, Deuteronomy, 1-2 Kings, Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible, History of Ancient Israel, History of religion in the ancient Levant, Monotheism, Monolatry, Archaeology of ancient Palestine/Israel |
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University of Helsinki | Academia.edu |
Vice-Team Leader |
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Mika Pajunen, Senior Member
mika.s.pajunen@helsinki.fi
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Scribes and Songs: Study of a Literary Phenomenom of the Second Temple Period |
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Second Temple Judaism; Dead Sea Scrolls; Manuscripts; Functions of Psalms; Scribal practices; Hebrew poetry; Chronicles; Exorcism; Material reconstruction |
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University of Helsinki | Academia.edu |
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Researchers |
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Francis Borchardt, Senior Member
Associate Professor, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong
archaeology@gmail.com
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Ville Mäkipelto, Post-Doctoral Researcher
ville.makipelto@helsinki.fi | @viljamitz
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Rewriting Sacred History: A Text-Historical Study of the So-Called Rewritten Joshua Traditions; The Septuagint of 2 Samuel |
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Textual History of the Old testament/Hebrew Bible; Textual criticism; Septuagint; Literary criticism; Redaction criticism; Book of Joshua |
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University of Helsinki | Academia.edu |
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
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Reinhard Müller, Associate Member
Professor of Old Testament, University of Münster
reinhard.mueller@uni-muenster.de
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Handbook of Ancient Editorial Techniques (with Juha Pakkala); Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:18-34:12 (ATD); Commentary on the book of Psalms (HAT) |
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Origins and transformations of the cult of Yhwh within the north-west Semitic cultures, Poetology, form-critical and tradition historical approaches to the Psalms, Origins of Ancient Hebrew prophecy of doom, Literary history and theology of Deuteronomy and related literature, Redaction history and editorial phenomena in Ancient Jewish literature, Old Testament Hermeneutics |
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University of Münster |
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Urmas Nõmmik, Associate Member
Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies, University of Tartu
urmas.nommik@ut.ee
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Textual criticism and the emergence of the Hebrew and Greek texts of Job |
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Literary criticism, redaction criticism, poetology, Biblical wisdom, Book of Job, motif history, history of religion in Ancient Israel, history of scholarship in Estonia |
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Estonian Research Portal | Academia.edu |
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Anssi Voitila, Associate Member
Senior Lecturer, University of Eastern Finland
anssi.voitila@uef.fi
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Several Ben Sira studies; Studies on the Greek language and the Septuagint; Studies on the Theology of the Septuagint |
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Septuagint: its language and theology; Book of Ben Sira and the Greek translation; Biblical Greek and Hebrew |
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University of Eastern Finland | Academia.edu |
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Pasi Hyytiäinen, Associate member
pasi.hyytiainen@helsinki.fi
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Textual Evolution of the Acts of Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (D05) |
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University of Helsinki | Academia.edu |
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The Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki