The Revised Standard Version (also International Standard Version and God’s Word Translation), when it came regarded as a liberal translation, has this fatal mistranslation of Rom 11:17:
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree (my [...]
David Robles put an important question in a comment, and I make an own post about it. He asks:
I have a question, please. In your book “Roots of Theological anti-Semitism”, do you approach the subject of anti-Semitism in the Orthodox Church, particularly in Russia and Greece? Is the charge of anti-semitism against such as Dr. [...]
Before the Holocaust, only few exegetes did serious work on the Jewish background to the New Testament. I have discussed this in my book, Roots of theological anti-Semitism. A rare example of a ‘modern’ scholar is Johannes Weiß, who is foreboding the Jewish turn in exegesis which is beginning to develop in the 1950’s. Another [...]
What started as a study group, in 1979 became a budding, and then flourishing, scholarly organisation, Collegium Patristicum Lundense. We were four or five in the first board, me being the youngest .
Over the years CPL has grown into a great organisation in connection with many Nordic and international scholars. Several doctoral dissertations have [...]
Last Friday I had the privilege of interviewing Professor Birger Gerhardsson in Lund. An elderly academic gentleman, he still is active in reading and reflection. Our topic was the so-called Uppsala School, which was of major importance in the exegetical debate in the middle of the last century. There were two ‘Uppsala schools’, one Old [...]
Since the Swedisch daily Aftonbladet’s publication of an article about harvesting of human organs by the IDF, Our sons are plundered of their organs, a hot debate has erupted. In a few articles in different media, I have argued that Boström here is playing on age-old anti-Semitic myths of blood libels, let be ina new [...]
Thank you for visiting my new blog! Here I will post reflections, small articles and other things that I wish to share. My main areas are New Testament studies, presently specialising in the Fourth Gospel. Since 1997 I have also engaged in questions about the New Testament and Jews and Judaism. My latest book is [...]