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Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktorORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-2203-7977
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Berglund, C. J. (2025). Paulus profetiska praktik och samhällets förväntningar i Första Korinthierbrevet 11–14. Hybrid, 3(1), 36-60
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Paulus profetiska praktik och samhällets förväntningar i Första Korinthierbrevet 11–14
2025 (Swedish)In: Hybrid, ISSN 2004-5425, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 36-60Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Den som vill förstå hur aposteln Paulus tycker att kristna församlingar ska praktisera det han kallar profetians gåva i relation till det omgivande samhället behöver ge sig in i hans svårtolkade undervisning i 1 Kor 11:2–14:40. Den här artikeln analyserar hur aposteln navigerar mellan korinthiernas och det grekisk-romerska samhällets förväntningar, och argumenterar för att Paulus (1) förutsätter att både män och kvinnor profeterar, (2) prioriterar en bred kategori av undervisande gåvor framför mer uppvisande gåvor, och (3) rekommenderar att manliga profeters hustrur undviker att tillrättavisa sina makar offentligt.

Keywords
andliga gåvor, könsroller, Paulus, Plutarchos, profetior, prövning, slöjor
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2719 (URN)10.58412/hyb.v3i1.25747 (DOI)
Available from: 2025-01-29 Created: 2025-01-29 Last updated: 2025-02-04Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). A Desirable Death: The Philosophical Context of Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom. In: Alfons Fürst (Ed.), Origeniana Tertia Decima: Origen and Philosophy – A Complex Relation (pp. 411-423). Leuven: Peeters Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A Desirable Death: The Philosophical Context of Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom
2024 (English)In: Origeniana Tertia Decima: Origen and Philosophy – A Complex Relation / [ed] Alfons Fürst, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2024, p. 411-423Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2024
Series
BETL ; 338
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2742 (URN)9789042953512 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-02-18 Created: 2025-02-18 Last updated: 2025-02-18
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective. Novum Testamentum, 66(2), 193-209
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective
2024 (English)In: Novum Testamentum, ISSN 0048-1009, E-ISSN 1568-5365, Vol. 66, no 2, p. 193-209Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

When a “royal official” (βασιλικός) urges Jesus to help his dying son, Jesus surprisingly retorts (John 4:48): “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” Researchers find this outburst out of place in response to a desperate father, but this article argues that it can be explained by use of an isodiegetic perspective, where the Johannine storyworld is informed by a larger narrative tradition in which the tetrarch Herod Antipas (ca. 4 BCE–39 CE) is a known adversary of Jesus, whose adherents strive to entrap him and get him killed. In view of the official’s expected patronal loyalty to “king” (βασιλεύς) Herod, his healing request can reasonably be presumed to be a trap until his appeal “Sir, come down before my child dies!” (John 4:49) clarifies that the man is not acting as a client, but as a father.

Keywords
βασιλικός; Herod Antipas; Herodians; loyalty; shared storyworld; Gospel of John
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2280 (URN)10.1163/15685365-bja10060 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-03-14 Created: 2024-03-14 Last updated: 2024-03-19Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 46(4), 464-488
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation
2024 (English)In: Journal for the Study of the New Testament, ISSN 0142-064X, E-ISSN 1745-5294, Vol. 46, no 4, p. 464-488Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Can the Markan disciples still be viewed as potential role models for the Gospel audience if Mark’s writing is identified as a biography? This long-standing line of narrative interpretation has recently been rejected as anachronistic by Helen K. Bond, who maintains that in Graeco-Roman biographies, secondary characters are only included for what they bring to the portrait of the protagonist. In response, this paper demonstrates that ancient biographies regularly use followers of their main characters to provide multiple mimetic patterns that clarify, broaden, and mitigate what it means to imitate their heroes. In particular, Mark’s cast of secondary characters offers three alternative patterns of behaviour for potential followers of Jesus: apostles, who emulate his itinerant lifestyle of preaching, healing, and exorcism; hosts, who provide apostles with food and shelter in their homes; and supporters, who serve the movement in other ways in accordance with their abilities and social status.

Keywords
bioi, exempla, mimesis, narratology, paradeigmata, vitae
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2291 (URN)10.1177/0142064X241235319 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-03-21 Created: 2024-03-21 Last updated: 2024-05-24Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Philip, Acts of. In: Constance M. Furey et al (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception: . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Philip, Acts of
2024 (English)In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception / [ed] Constance M. Furey et al, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2024Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The Acts of Philip is a collection of stories about an apostle traveling the world, healing the ill, and preaching Christ. It makes no distinction between the apostle (Luke 6:14; Acts 1:13) and the evangelist (Acts 6:5; 8:4–40), gives Philip a noble birth (Acts Phil. 6.8), and calls him “Son of Thunder” (Acts Phil. 2.9, 17; cf. Mark 3:17), so the stories may originally have had different protagonists.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2024
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2599 (URN)
Available from: 2024-12-04 Created: 2024-12-04 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Presumptions about Voluntary Poverty in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. In: : . Paper presented at The Challenge of Poverty: Theological Responses in Early Christian Literature and Global Christian History,Conference, 29-31 May, Åbo, Finland.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Presumptions about Voluntary Poverty in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In the extracanonical story about Paul and Thecla in Iconium, Paul’s host Onesiphorus (cf. 2 Tim 1:16; 4:19) is so radical in abandoning the concerns of this world that he camps out in a tomb without the means to feed his hungry children (Acts Paul 3.23–25). Where did he learn such a radical notion of voluntary poverty, and what is the reader supposed to make of it when nothing else in the story teaches the same ideal? This paper uses Kathryn Tanner’s theory of culture to argue that the Acts of Paul presents the abandonment of all personal earthly possessions as a subcultural ideal so established in early Christian culture that it can be taken for granted rather than argued for.

National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2451 (URN)
Conference
The Challenge of Poverty: Theological Responses in Early Christian Literature and Global Christian History,Conference, 29-31 May, Åbo, Finland
Available from: 2024-05-30 Created: 2024-05-30 Last updated: 2025-01-23Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Recycled Gospel stories in the Acts of Philip. In: : . Paper presented at SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 23-26, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Recycled Gospel stories in the Acts of Philip
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In one of the stories in the Acts of Philip, the apostle finds himself in conflict with the local Jewish authorities, transforms into shining glory before his disciples’ eyes, allows himself to be tried in court, resurrects a dead man, and ascends into heaven. In this paper, we will see how the author of this story reimagines the story of Jesus with the apostle Philip as the new protagonist.

Keywords
rewritten Bible, gospel genre, ancient biographies, imitation
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2593 (URN)
Conference
SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 23-26, 2024
Available from: 2024-11-25 Created: 2024-11-25 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Reimagining Gospel Stories with Apostolic Protagonists: The Apostle Philip vs. the People of Nikatera. In: : . Paper presented at Reimagining Gospel Literature, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 6th of March in Berkeley.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Reimagining Gospel Stories with Apostolic Protagonists: The Apostle Philip vs. the People of Nikatera
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2254 (URN)
Conference
Reimagining Gospel Literature, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 6th of March in Berkeley
Available from: 2024-03-09 Created: 2024-03-09 Last updated: 2024-03-19Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Review of Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) [Review]. Journal of early Christian studies (Print), 32(3), 467-469
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Review of Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022)
2024 (English)In: Journal of early Christian studies (Print), ISSN 1067-6341, E-ISSN 1086-3184, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 467-469Article, book review (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In all, Eusebius the Evangelist should be considered the given starting-point for any academic work on Eusebius’s apparatus, and a great resource for reflection on how the fourfold Gospel was received for most of its history.

National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2598 (URN)10.1353/earl.2024.a936766 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-12-04 Created: 2024-12-04 Last updated: 2025-01-23Bibliographically approved
Berglund, C. J. (2024). Review of Margaret H. Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus, The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries 7 (London: T&T Clark, 2023) [Review]. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 75(4), 771-773
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Review of Margaret H. Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus, The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries 7 (London: T&T Clark, 2023)
2024 (English)In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, ISSN 0022-0469, E-ISSN 1469-7637, Vol. 75, no 4, p. 771-773Article, book review (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

After Williams’s meticulous analysis of the comparatively scarce material from Pliny, Tacitus, and Lucian, more could have been done with Celsus’s lengthy polemic, and the surviving material from the anti-Christian polemics by Porphyry, Sossianus Hierocles and Julian would also be worth analysis. Nevertheless, Williams has accomplished an impressive and stimulatingly fresh reading of the material, where her background in Classical studies serves as a valuable corrective to the previous analyses by Biblical scholars and Church historians. Her book is well worth including in any discussion of Jesus’s historicity or pagan reception of early Christianity.

National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Biblical Studies, New testament
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2597 (URN)
Available from: 2024-12-04 Created: 2024-12-04 Last updated: 2025-01-23Bibliographically approved
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