New Testament

Historically, critics linked Bible translation directly to literacy and evangelism, and indirectly to colonial agendas. Those involved in Bible translation in recent centuries have often restricted their purview both in terms of communication media and theological imagination. T…

It is no exaggeration to say that recent scholarship on ancient Jewish purity law is vast. Yet despite so many recent achievements, some important questions remain largely unaddressed. One such topic is the question of the defiling force of sin, or in other words, the impurity o…

In the mid 1990's, Aarhus University's Per Bilde detailed a new hypothesis of how Judaism, Christianity and Gnosticism were connected. Bilde suggested that Christianity acted as a catalyst, propelling Jewish Apocalypticism into Gnosticism. This dissertation applies the epistle o…

Apocalyptic Transmissions explores the significance of nineteenth and early twentieth century New Testament research in relation to current attempts to rethink the nature of modernity and its secular rationalities. The dissertation considers the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Hei…