Samuel Byrskog
Biographic Data
| ID | 4688800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Byrskog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrskog |
| SIGNATURE | BYRSKOG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1967-4294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Romans Debate
This article is an introduction to the conference on Paul’s letter to the Romans held at Lund University 23-24 September 2024. It rehearses some of the published literature during recent years and identifies four current trends: recurring historical issues, recurring theological readings, new hermeneutical readings and apocalyptic
Bibelkommentarer i undervisning
This joint article, comprising five contributions, results from a workshop focused on the use of Bible commentaries in teaching at Swedish universities today. While each contribution presents a distinct style and voice, we all agree on the importance of learning how to use commentaries in higher education and, equally, the need for their active application. We also all welcome the development of more commentaries in Swedish. The first two contrib…
Gedächtnis
Memory and Narrative – and Time
This article seeks to develop the recent attention to memory by outlining a hermeneutical approach that links memory closely to philosophical reflections on referentiality, narrativity and temporality. From insights of modern and ancient theories of memory, the the present approach insists that memory is referential in that its images are held to derive from outside memory, that it is narrative in that it is believed to picture a socially conditi…
The Mission of Jesus
From the inception of critical Jesus research, the questions of Jesus' understanding of his authority and his aims have been central to this field of inquiry. Up to this day, scholars are making efforts toward resolving those questions. This volume is a collection of contributions that were originally presented at the second Nordic Symposium on the historical Jesus in Lund 2012. Researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden continue and br…
The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices
Much of the Jesus scholarship has concentrated on the so-called self-identity of Jesus. However, due to the recent emphasis on the subjective perception and memory processes in the methodology of Jesus research, it is meaningful to re-conceptualize the question. The authors of this volume approach the question of the identity of Jesus from different angles. Viewpoints vary from that of comparative religion to the analysis of the narratives Jesus …
Baptism in the Letter to the Hebrews
The Transmission of the Jesus Tradition
Der Aufsatz untersucht Theorien über Ursprung und Entwicklung der Jesustradition und eröffnet Wege für eine erneute formkritische Erforschung ihrer Überlieferung unter besonderer Beachtung der Erinnerungsdimension. Die Tradition wurzelt in Jesu Tätigkeit als Lehrer und in der Wahrnehmung der traditionsformenden Rolle und des Erinnerungspotentials seiner Worte und Taten durch die Jünger. Die Tradition wurde früh auf paränetische Bedürfnisse hin ge…
The Eyewitnesses as Interpreters of the Past
Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses is a remarkable achievement which rightly places the role of eyewitnesses in early Christianity on the international scholarly agenda and points to its historical and theological significance. Just as Bauckham has previously challenged form criticism on its uncritical reference to Gospels communities, he has now decisively undermined the romantic idea of the existence of creative collectives determine…
The Early Church as a Narrative Fellowship – An Exploratory Study of the Performance of the Chreia
The early Church was a narrative fellowship which narrativized the Jesus tradition and per-formed it from memory. It did so by using specific narrative and mnemonic forms of commu-nication. The chreia combines features of narrativity, oral performance, and memory and con-stituted a basic element of the narrative mosaic of the Church. The author of the Gospel of Mark indicates a broader pattern of narrative performance in that he introduces his na…
A New Quest for the Sitz im Leben
The recent interest in social memory theories among NT scholars promises a new framework for the study of the social dynamics reflected in the Gospels. This essay employs Eviatar Zerubavel's ‘sociomental typography’ of the ‘sociobiographical memory’ in order to conceptualize the contours of the Sitz im Leben of the Gospel of Matthew. The perspective of social memory as described by Zerubavel reveals the mnemonic character of the Sitz im Leben and…
Story as History - History as Story
From recent reviews: »The book contains detailed and fascinating investigations of the methods of the ancient historians of Greece and Rome for the light they are claimed to shed upon those of the New Testament writers. Whenever an ancient source is quoted, not only is an English translation given in the text, but the original language of the example is also reproduced in a footnote. Fascinating also are the discussions of relevant passages in th…
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Story as History - History as Story
From recent reviews: »The book contains detailed and fascinating investigations of the methods of the ancient historians of Greece and Rome for the light they are claimed to shed upon those of the New Testament writers. Whenever an ancient source is quoted, not only is an English translation given in the text, but the original language of the example is also reproduced in a footnote. Fascinating also are the discussions of relevant passages in th…
A New Quest for the Sitz im Leben
The recent interest in social memory theories among NT scholars promises a new framework for the study of the social dynamics reflected in the Gospels. This essay employs Eviatar Zerubavel's ‘sociomental typography’ of the ‘sociobiographical memory’ in order to conceptualize the contours of the Sitz im Leben of the Gospel of Matthew. The perspective of social memory as described by Zerubavel reveals the mnemonic character of the Sitz im Leben and…
The Early Church as a Narrative Fellowship – An Exploratory Study of the Performance of the Chreia
The early Church was a narrative fellowship which narrativized the Jesus tradition and per-formed it from memory. It did so by using specific narrative and mnemonic forms of commu-nication. The chreia combines features of narrativity, oral performance, and memory and con-stituted a basic element of the narrative mosaic of the Church. The author of the Gospel of Mark indicates a broader pattern of narrative performance in that he introduces his na…
The Eyewitnesses as Interpreters of the Past
Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses is a remarkable achievement which rightly places the role of eyewitnesses in early Christianity on the international scholarly agenda and points to its historical and theological significance. Just as Bauckham has previously challenged form criticism on its uncritical reference to Gospels communities, he has now decisively undermined the romantic idea of the existence of creative collectives determine…
The Transmission of the Jesus Tradition
Der Aufsatz untersucht Theorien über Ursprung und Entwicklung der Jesustradition und eröffnet Wege für eine erneute formkritische Erforschung ihrer Überlieferung unter besonderer Beachtung der Erinnerungsdimension. Die Tradition wurzelt in Jesu Tätigkeit als Lehrer und in der Wahrnehmung der traditionsformenden Rolle und des Erinnerungspotentials seiner Worte und Taten durch die Jünger. Die Tradition wurde früh auf paränetische Bedürfnisse hin ge…
Baptism in the Letter to the Hebrews
The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices
Much of the Jesus scholarship has concentrated on the so-called self-identity of Jesus. However, due to the recent emphasis on the subjective perception and memory processes in the methodology of Jesus research, it is meaningful to re-conceptualize the question. The authors of this volume approach the question of the identity of Jesus from different angles. Viewpoints vary from that of comparative religion to the analysis of the narratives Jesus …
The Mission of Jesus
From the inception of critical Jesus research, the questions of Jesus' understanding of his authority and his aims have been central to this field of inquiry. Up to this day, scholars are making efforts toward resolving those questions. This volume is a collection of contributions that were originally presented at the second Nordic Symposium on the historical Jesus in Lund 2012. Researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden continue and br…
Memory and Narrative – and Time
This article seeks to develop the recent attention to memory by outlining a hermeneutical approach that links memory closely to philosophical reflections on referentiality, narrativity and temporality. From insights of modern and ancient theories of memory, the the present approach insists that memory is referential in that its images are held to derive from outside memory, that it is narrative in that it is believed to picture a socially conditi…
Gedächtnis
The Romans Debate
This article is an introduction to the conference on Paul’s letter to the Romans held at Lund University 23-24 September 2024. It rehearses some of the published literature during recent years and identifies four current trends: recurring historical issues, recurring theological readings, new hermeneutical readings and apocalyptic
Bibelkommentarer i undervisning
This joint article, comprising five contributions, results from a workshop focused on the use of Bible commentaries in teaching at Swedish universities today. While each contribution presents a distinct style and voice, we all agree on the importance of learning how to use commentaries in higher education and, equally, the need for their active application. We also all welcome the development of more commentaries in Swedish. The first two contrib…
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Biblical studies (3 works) · New Testament (3 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (3 works)