Two Jewish studies related postdoctoral projects in Scandinavia

Katharina E Keim,Wally V Cirafesi

doi:10.30752/nj.75439

Katharina E Keim, Wally V Cirafesi

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Wally V. Cirafesi of University of Oslo and Katharina E. Keim of Lund University briefly present their postdoctoral projects within the area of Jewish Studies. Cirafesi has just completed his dissertation on the Gospel of John within its first-century Jewish environment, entitled ‘John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel’, and has received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society (Menighetsfakulteten). Keim completed her dissertation on a work of Jewish bible interpretation at the University of Manchester in 2014, published since as Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality (Brill, 2016). She has recently begun a postdoctoral fellowship in Jewish studies at Lund University. Both projects are interdisciplinary and concern interaction between Jews and Christians in Antiquity, and in Keim’s case also interaction with Islam.

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Cirafesi has just completed his dissertation on the Gospel of John within its first-century Jewish environment, entitled ‘John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel’, and has received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society (Menig hetsfakulteten)
Since the 1970s, it has been a major archaeological attraction, located on the north-western coast of the Kinneret Lake and touted by the Franciscan Custodia Terrae Sanctae as the ‘town of Jesus’. This little village has been of significant interest to New Testament historians as well as scholars of Second Temple Judaism and Late Antique Palestine
While the great white synagogue was itself a magisterial discovery, presenting a rich array of interpretative challenges to synagogue scholars concerning its history, architecture and institutional function, what makes Capernaum a unique site is that just twenty-five meters to the south of the synagogue were discovered the remains of a Byzantine church constructed in the shape of three concentric octagons, erected in the fifth century ostensibly to commemorate the site of St Peter’s house

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Keim of Lund University briefly present their postdoctoral projects within the area of Jewish Studies. Building Jewish and Christian identity in the village of Nahum: a social and cultural history of Jews and Christians in Capernaum from the first to the sixth century CE

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