Jorunn Økland

• Werner, Ann; Økland, Jorunn; Hoffart, Amund Rake & Lundberg, Anna A. (2018). Constructing Terminology and Defining Concepts for Gender Studies in Norway and Sweden. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  26(2), s 142- 153 . doi: 10.1080/08038740.2018.1477177 Show summary

  This position paper by four key researchers from two projects (one in Norway and one in Sweden) aims to define and discuss terms and concepts in Gender Studies. It is inspired by the concept of dialogue as a method of academic writing and discusses the methods, results, challenges and choices made in the two projects. While they both aimed to create and discuss a vocabulary for Gender Studies and gender research, the projects took shape from different approaches, and produced different results. In this position paper, we discuss the meaning of doing conceptual work and deciding on definitions of terms. Our aim is not to determine which approach is “better”, but rather to understand how the field of Gender Studies and gender research is being built.

• Økland, Jorunn (2018). (under oversettelse). Biblical Literature Studies.  ISSN 2520-0887.  16
• Økland, Jorunn (2018). Odysseer: Om båtflyktninger, fremmedkrigere og dem reisen forvandler til det ugjenkjennelige. Agora : Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon.  ISSN 0800-7136.  35-36(4-1), s 33- 51
• Økland, Jorunn (2018). The Power of Canonised Motifs: The Chance for Biblical Studies in a Secular, Canonically Illiterate World?, In Tat-Siong Benny Liew (ed.),  Present and Future of Biblical Studies: Celebrating Twenty-five Years of Brill's Biblical Interpretation.  Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 9789004363069.  Kapittel.  s 216 - 239
• Økland, Jorunn (2017). Chapter 1: Death and the Maiden: Manifestos, Gender, Self-Canonisation, and Violence, In Yvonne Sherwood (ed.),  The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780198722618.  1.  s 15 - 44 Show summary

  In a comparative study of the manifesto genre, the chapter selects three manifestos that from the outset shares common traits, including glorification of death and violence, a preoccupation with gender, the ‘laying bare’ of future events, all from a marginal position in the present. The three are the biblical Book of Revelation, Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, and Breivik’s 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. The modern manifestos demonstrate genre similarities and a continuity in themes, preoccupations compared to Revelation, but postulating direct dependence would mean going too far. Instead, the chapter demonstrates how the misogynist ideology of Revelation lives on in the clockwork of the genre it helped to create, long after any detailed knowledge of the text itself is forgotten.

• Økland, Jorunn (2017). 作为剩余价值的文本生产:保罗论如何使基督及配偶喜悦——以西蒙娜·德·波伏娃理论为参照. Biblical Literature Studies.  ISSN 2520-0887.  15, s 132- 156 Show summary

  内容提要：马克思和恩格斯有许多著作论及基督教，其中包括《共产党宣言》。《启示录》在圣经中占有醒目位置，马克思和恩格斯对之特别关注。马克思和恩格斯对《启示录》的论述主要集中于以下四种文献，分别是马克思的《批判的末日的审判》，即《神圣家族》第九章，和《德意志意识形态》一书，恩格斯的论文《启示录》和《论原始基督教的历史》。《启示录》是唯一恒常出现于马克思和恩格斯著作中的圣经经卷。《启示录》有一些特点，它们非常适合于马克思和恩格斯表述其关于历史发展的整个理论。马克思和恩格斯通过研究《启示录》为社会主义运动指明方向。乌托邦具有冲击力。基督教是一个关于成功的故事。马克思的某些著作具有圣经格调。早期和晚期马克思主义文献之间存在着差异。《启示录》宣示出来的幽灵频繁再现。马克思和恩格斯著作至今具有重大的研究潜质，能够对人们清晰认识当代社会变动的总趋势以深刻启迪。

• Økland, Jorunn & Cimdina, Ausma (2017). Translating Gender: Latvian and Norwegian Case Studies in Feminist Perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia.  ISSN 1022-4483.  25(2), s 4- 19 Show summary

  This article demonstrates how key Anglophone feminist theoretical terms may be translated and affects perception and analysis of texts written in Norwegian and Latvian in particular. For this purpose a very established distinction within Anglophone, feminist theory is selected for special scrutiny, the distinction between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’. In this article the authors have traced both the history of the term ’gender’ especially as part of the ‘sex-gender’ distinction, i.e. ‘gender’ as a description of socio-cultural role and personal identity, and the translation of this distinction into Norwegian and Latvian. ‘Gender’ in English language is a neutral, descriptive term, while ‘gender’ in inadequate translation or in untranslated form has been imported into many Eastern European languages and given a different and intended negative meaning. The authors of the article note that literary and cultural theories formulated in one language make themselves dependent on the possibilities of that language. The concepts of feminism and gender are culturally differentiated and each culture and language perceives them in its own way, frequently creating the dissonance between power and culture, between theory, general normative acts and their perception in society. Therefore, the concepts of feminism and gender should be researched in the context of national cultural history and political agenda. This article may be of interest to researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences. Keywords: sex/gender distinction, meaning, translation, untranslatable, science communication

• Økland, Jorunn (2016). Ancient Drinking in Modern Bible Translation, In Alan H. Cadwallader (ed.),  Stones, Bones, and the Sacred: Essays on Material Culture and Ancient Religion in Honor of Dennis E. Smith.  Society of Biblical Literature Press.  ISBN 9780884142102.  Kapittel 6.  s 85 - 100
• Økland, Jorunn (2016). Carnelian and Caryatids: Stone and Statuary in the Heavenly Sanctuary, In Jorunn Økland; Cornelis de Vos & Karen Wenell (ed.),  Constructions of Space III: Biblical Spatiality and the Sacred.  T&T Clark.  ISBN 9780567115164.  Chapter 12.  s 184 - 214 Show summary

  In her essay on sacred space in the Apocalypse of John, Økland demonstrates how aspects of the description of John’s vision of God’s throne room are evocative of other apocalyptic and rabbinic texts, yet also show resemblances to Graeco-Roman public religion, thereby offering a counter discourse to the Roman imperial order. Examples from architecture and statuary of ancient pagan temples suggest the possibility of reading John’s description of heaven as a sanctuary dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus. Key words: Book of Revelation, statuary, space studies, temple, sanctuary, ritual theory, the sacred, holy/holiness, architecture

• Økland, Jorunn (2016). Sjelløs lesning, eller: Om å vite i kroppen og i rommet, I: Drude von der Fehr (red.),  Den levende kroppen. Mot en ny forståelse av menneske og natur.  Vidarforlaget AS.  ISBN 9788279902997.  Kapittel.  s 255 - 278 Show summary

  Jorunn Økland har skrevet om Paulus' tro på gjenoppstandelsen etter døden. Dette representerer et synspunkt på kroppen som går helt tilbake til antikken og som ikke skiller på kartesiansk vis mellom det ytre, kroppslige og det indre, bevissthetsmessige. Det spørsmålet som Paulus' tilhørere stilte i forbindelse med troen på gjenoppstandelsen - en tro Paulus oppfattet som viten - er om den oppstandne kroppen ville være den samme som før døden eller en helt annen? I vår sammenheng kan vi se problemstillingene Økland diskuterer i en bredere kontekst. Det dreier seg om forholdet mellom tro og viten og et før-dualistisk synspunkt på kroppen. Kan en kroppsbasert fornemmelse av visshet forbinde biologi og religion?

• Økland, Jorunn (2015). Feminist Readings of the Bible, In John Riches (ed.),  The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 4. From 1750 to the Present.  Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 978-0-521-85823-6.  15.  s 261 - 272
• Økland, Jorunn (2015). Requiring an Explanation: Hegemonic Masculinities in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Traditions. Biblical Interpretation.  ISSN 0927-2569.  23(4-5), s 479- 488 . doi: 10.1163/15685152-02345p01
• Økland, Jorunn (2014). Facilitating Speech and Discourse: Biblical Interpretation and the Emergence of a Concept of Gender Equality. Journal of the Bible and its Reception.  ISSN 2329-4434.  1(2), s 209- 235 . doi: 10.1515/jbr-2014-0012 Show summary

  The article is a case study demonstrating that the Bible at the end of the 19th century could still function as a common rhetorical tool, a frame of reference, and a common court of appeal in important public debates. The case in question is the Anglophone debate over women’s rights, voice, and vote on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean around 1890. The article analyzes three different lay positions represented by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Christina Rossetti, and Heber Hart. They represent three different directions that reception of the Bible with regard to gender equality and women’s authorial voice could take in this period. The article also argues that a concept of gender equality goes several centuries further back than what is often thought, and that the early development of the concept in a pre-secularized intellectual environment needs much further scholarly attention.

• Økland, Jorunn (2014). Kvinnefrigjøringen og friheten - et trøblete forhold, I: Svein Harald Gullbekk (red.),  Ja, vi elsker frihet.  Dreyer Forlag A/S.  ISBN 978-82-8265-093-9.  Kapittel.  s 326 - 333
• Økland, Jorunn (2014). Sjelløs lesning, eller: Å vite i kroppen og i rommet. Collegium Biblicum Årsskrift.  ISSN 2246-4158.  18 . doi: http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/cb/article/view/23843 Show summary

  Foredrag i Collegium Biblicum. Opprinnelig publisert i Fehr, Drude van der, ed., Den levende kroppen. Mot en ny forståelse av menneske og natur, Vidarforlaget, Oslo 2016, 261-284. jf. http://vidarforlaget.no/boker/den-levende-kroppen

• Økland, Jorunn & Stordalen, Terje (2014). Canon/Canonicity/Canonisation, In Julia M. O'Brien (ed.),  Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies. Volume 1: ASI – MUJ.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 978-0-19-020488-4.  Kapittel.  s 17 - 25
• Økland, Jorunn (2013). Feminismen, tradisjonen, og forventning, I: Anders Ravik Jupskås & Anders Ravik Jupskås (red.),  Akademiske perspektiver på 22. juli.  Akademisk Forlag.  ISBN 9788232101313.  kapittel.  s 115 - 128
• Økland, Jorunn (2012). Productive Presuppositions, Exuberant Commentaries? The New Testament Discipline Read Through the Lens of Foucault's 'L'ordre du discours', In John Rogerson & Duncan Burns (ed.),  Far From Minimal‬: ‪Celebrating the Work and Influence of Philip R. Davies‬.  Bloomsbury Academic.  ISBN 9780567027177.  kapittel.  s 335 - 349
• Økland, Jorunn (2011). Fremmer dannelse demokrati? Kjønnskritiske refleksjoner omkring dannelsens demokratiske legitimering, I: Bernt Hagtvet & Gorana Ognjenovic (red.),  Dannelse. Tenkning - modning - refleksjon.  Dreyer Forlag A/S.  ISBN 978-82-8265-027-4.  III Enkeltfag og profesjoner.  s 583 - 599
• Økland, Jorunn (2011). Translations in Religion and Politics: State Feminist Biblical Interpretation. Sino-Christian Studies: An International Journal of Bible, Theology & Philosophy.  ISSN 1990-2670.  12(Dec), s 7- 31 Show summary

  kinesisk tittel og sammendrag

• Økland, Jorunn; Fischer, Irmtraud; Navarro Puerto, Mercedes & Valerio, Adriana (2011). Women, Bible and Reception History: An International Project in Theology and Gender Studies, In Jorunn Økland (ed.),  Torah.  SBL - Society of Biblical Literature.  ISBN 9781589835641.  Innledning.  s 1 - 30
• Fischer, Irmtraud; Økland, Jorunn; Navarro Puerto, Mercedes & Valerio, Adriana (2010). Frauen, Bibel und Rezeptionsgeschichte: Ein internationales Projekt der Theologie und Genderforschung, I: Irmtraud Fischer; Mercedes Navarro Puerto (red.),  Tora.  W. Kohlhammer GmbH.  ISBN 978-3-17-020975-6.  Einleitung.  s 9 - 35
• Strand, Vibeke Blaker; Økland, Jorunn & Solhøy, Stina Hansteen (2010). Rettferdighetens grenser - religion, kjønn og homofili, I: Beatrice Halsaa & Anne Hellum (red.),  Rettferdighet.  Universitetsforlaget.  ISBN 9788215015569.  Kapittel.  s 103 - 125
• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Ceres, Κορη, and Cultural Complexity: Divine Personality Definitions and Human Worshippers in Roman Corinth, In Steven J. Friesen; Daniel N. Showalter & James Walters (ed.),  Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society.  Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 978900418197-7.  VII.  s 199 - 229
• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Feminist Exegesis as Liberation Project, Cultural Critique and Cultural Memory Work. Lectio Difficilior.  ISSN 1661-3317.  11(2) Show summary

  Feministische Exegese als Projekt der Befreiung, als Kulturkritik und als kulturelles Gedächtnis

• Økland, Jorunn (2010). "Night at the Museum": En model. Tidsskriftet Fønix.  ISSN 0105-3116.  33(3), s 227- 238 Show summary

  Night at the Museum - A Model

• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Om å oversette religion : tanker etter karikaturstriden. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0800-336X.  27(3), s 279- 291
• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Sex Slaves of Christ: A Response to Halvor Moxnes, In Paul Foster (ed.),  New Testament Studies: Volume III.  Sage Publications.  ISBN 978184860168-0.  41.  s 85 - 88
• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Why Can’t the Heavenly Miss Jerusalem Just Shut Up?, In Amy-Jill Levine & Maria Mayo Robbins (ed.),  A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John.  Continuum.  ISBN 9780826466501.  Kapittel.  s 88 - 105
• Økland, Jorunn; Fischer, Irmtraud; Valerio, Adriana & Navarro Puerto, Mercedes (2010). Donne, Bibbia e storia della ricezione. Un progetto internazionale di teologia nell'ottica di genere, I: Irmtraud Fischer; Mercedes Navarro Puerto (red.),  La Torah.  Il Pozzo di Giacobbe.  ISBN 978-88-6124-143-5.  1.  s 7 - 31
• Seim, Turid Karlsen & Økland, Jorunn (2009). Introduction, In Turid Karlsen Seim & Jorunn Økland (ed.),  Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity.  Walter de Gruyter.  ISBN 978-3-11-020298-4.  artikkel/forord.  s 1 - 18
• Økland, Jorunn (2009). Genealogies of the Self: Materiality, Personal Identity, and the Body in Paul's Letters to the Corinthians, In Turid Karlsen Seim & Jorunn Økland (ed.),  Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity.  Walter de Gruyter.  ISBN 978-3-11-020298-4.  kapittel.  s 83 - 107
• Økland, Jorunn (2009). Setting the Scene: The End of the Bible, the End of the World, In Jorunn Økland & William John Lyons (ed.),  The Way the world Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology.  Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-43-1.  Innledning.  s 1 - 30
• Økland, Jorunn (2009). The Spectre Revealed and Made Manifest: The Book of Revelation in the Writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, In Jorunn Økland & William John Lyons (ed.),  The Way the world Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology.  Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-43-1.  kapittel.  s 267 - 288
• Økland, Jorunn (2008). Europa post-secolare Christiana, I: Sandra Mazzolini & Marinella Perroni (red.),  Teologhe: In quale Europa.  Effata' Editrice.  ISBN 978-88-7402-389-9.  Kapittel.  s 91 - 109 Show summary

  In this paper I focus on the paradoxes of the secular/post-secular. The ambition of a secular zone and the work towards creating a climate of religious tolerance emerged in Europe after centuries of bloody religious wars. They were the solutions to how Christian brothers (and sisters) could stop killing each other. As a historically minded scholar, I find it extremely worrying that this history now seems to lose ground. The attitude seems to be, ‘even if religion creates wars in the rest of the world, that will not happen in Europe’. A history that is not remembered will not continue to protect Europe against religiously motivated wars and conflicts. I think the important question ahead of us in Europe, is not, ‘what should be the place of religion’, but ‘what kind of common arena, public space do we want?’ What should be its basic rules of interaction? Do we want an arena where everyone can freely live out their religious convictions, and say what they want even if this means that others are thereby discriminated against or hurt? Equality of opportunity and freedom of religion often turn out to be mutually irreconcilable since many confessions and religions are against full equality of opportunity – between women and men, gays, lesbians and heterosexuals, between their own members and members of other religions. A right or a freedom is not a right or freedom if it is not used, or if it only applies to some – some people or some faith communities.

• Økland, Jorunn (2008). I begynnelsen eller i kjelleren? Irigaray, evangelisten Johannes og andre åpninger. Agora : Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon.  ISSN 0800-7136.  26(3), s 45- 68
• Økland, Jorunn (2008). Textual Reproduction as Surplus Value: Paul on Pleasing Christ and Spouses, in Light of Simone de Beauvoir, In Jorunn Økland & Roland Boer (ed.),  Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible.  Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-35-6.  Kapittel.  s 182 - 203
• Økland, Jorunn (2008). The Transformation of Corinthian Goddesses, In Willy Østreng (ed.),  Complexity: Interdisciplinary Communications 2006/2007.  Centre for Advanced Study.  ISBN 978-82-996367-5-9.  Kapittel.  s 72 - 76
• Økland, Jorunn & Boer, Roland (2008). Towards Marxist Feminist Biblical Criticism, In Jorunn Økland & Roland Boer (ed.),  Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible.  Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-35-6.  kapittel 1.  s 1 - 25
• Økland, Jorunn & Halsaa, Beatrice (2008). NOU 2008:1 Kvinner og homofile i trossamfunn. To høringsuttalelser. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.  ISSN 0809-6341.  (2), s 40- 57
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Anmeldelse av: Anne-Louise Eriksson: Kvinnor talar om Jesus. En bok om feministisk kristologisk praxis. Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift.  ISSN 0039-6761.  75(4), s 187- 189
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). "Den historiske Maria" og Dea Creatrix: Et historisk-kritisk bidrag til feministisk-teologisk refleksjon, I: Dagny Kaul; Anne Hilde Laland & Solveig Østrem (red.),  Feministteologi på norsk.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 82-456-0735-5.  s 113 - 129
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Én mann i Kristus: Kjønn og integrasjon i Paulus¿ ekklesia. Kvinneforskning.  ISSN 0806-6256.  23(2), s 24- 42

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• Økland, Jorunn; de Vos, Cornelis & Wenell, Karen (ed.) (2016). Constructions of Space III: Biblical Spatiality and the Sacred. T&T Clark.  ISBN 9780567115164.
• Økland, Jorunn (ed.) (2015). Hegemonic Masculinities in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Traditions (Special Issue). Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 0000009272569.  150 s.
• Økland, Jorunn; Smit, Peter-Ben; van Klinken, Adriaan & Creanga, Ovidiu (ed.) (2015). Special Issue: Making Men: The Reception of the Bible in the Construction of Masculinities in Jewish and Christian Con/Texts (Special Issue). Walter de Gruyter.  152 s.
• Fischer, Irmtraud; Navarro Puerto, Mercedes & Økland, Jorunn (2010). Tora. W. Kohlhammer GmbH.  ISBN 978-3-17-020975-6.  443 s.
• Økland, Jorunn (red.) (2010). Paulus' brev. Bokklubbens kulturbibliotek.  ISBN 978-82-525-7444-9.
• Økland, Jorunn; Fischer, Irmtraud & Navarro Puerto, Mercedes (red.) (2010). La Torah. Il Pozzo di Giacobbe.  ISBN 978-88-6124-143-5.  446 s.
• Seim, Turid Karlsen & Økland, Jorunn (ed.) (2009). Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity. Walter de Gruyter.  ISBN 978-3-11-020298-4.  401 s. Show summary

  How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. - Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism - Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) - With wide-ranging textual material

• Økland, Jorunn & Lyons, William John (ed.) (2009). The Way the world Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology. Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-43-1.  317 s. Show summary

  The richly varied collection of 13 essays in this volume showcase the afterlife of the Book of Revelation. It is a biblical book that has left its mark in many fields of intellectual endeavour: literature, film, music, philosophy, political theology, and religious ideology. It is perhaps paradoxical that this book, which promises God’s punishment upon anyone expanding on its contents, has nevertheless accumulated to itself over two millennia vast amounts of commentary, exposition, and appropriation. Offered at the close of the ‘Blair/Bush years’, this volume also exposes and highlights the often deeply ironic resonances generated while studying the reception history of Revelation during a period when the book has both significant public currency and a potentially terrifying global impact.

• Økland, Jorunn & Boer, Roland (ed.) (2008). Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Sheffield Phoenix Press.  ISBN 978-1-906055-35-6.  252 s.

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• Økland, Jorunn (2018). Nyheter fra Det norske institutt i Athen. Klassisk Forum.  ISSN 0801-3179.  s 133- 134
• Økland, Jorunn (2017). En allmenn lesning av Koranen: Anmeldelse av Tidsskriftet Samtidens Koran-nummer 2017. Avisa Vårt land.
• Økland, Jorunn (2017). I begynnelsen er ordet. Inter Medicos.  ISSN 0020-5052.  60(3), s 6- 7
• Økland, Jorunn (2017). Norwegian Feminism, In Ausma Cimdina (ed.),  Kulturas feminisms/Cultural Feminisms: A Glossary of Feminist Terms.  Zinatne.  ISBN 9789934549403.  kapittel.
• Økland, Jorunn & Hoffart, Amund Rake (2017). Fagtermer i kjønnsforskningen. [html ].
• Økland, Jorunn (2016). Minnetale over professor Kari Elisabeth Børresen: holdt på møte 8. desember 2016. Årbok / Det norske videnskaps-akademi.  ISSN 0332-6209.  s 198- 204
• Økland, Jorunn; de Vos, Cornelis & Wenell, Karen (2016). Introduction, In Jorunn Økland; Cornelis de Vos & Karen Wenell (ed.),  Constructions of Space III: Biblical Spatiality and the Sacred.  T&T Clark.  ISBN 9780567115164.  Innledning.  s xii - xxii Show summary

  Most biblical scholars are aware of the way holiness and space are interlocked in the discourses surrounding such key biblical spaces as the tabernacle, the land, and the Temple in Jerusalem; most are also aware of how the holiness of those spaces materialized in different ways in different periods. A spatial-critical perspective can help us better appreciate how the relationship between notions of holiness and of space was a more dynamic one—as notions of space changed, notions of holiness changed, and vice versa. Critical perspectives open up further intriguing questions explored in the current volume, emerging out of the research programme “The Bible and Sacred Space” under the auspices of the European Association of Biblical Studies, launched in Dresden in 2005. Theoretically, the volume explores tools from critical spatial theory but strives to adjust them to critical studies of ancient spaces. The contributors are interested in how a variety of theories (such as ritual theory, psychoanalytical theory, speech act theory, narrative theory, etc.) can be used to tease out the spatial aspects of texts in the biblical tradition. The present volume is also informed by the development of liberation hermeneutics and the significance of location in the colonial systems of the world. Empirically, close, sensitive readings of sacred spaces with spatial and critical awareness are presented in two main sections, moving in a roughly canonical order through the texts of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament, also including two chapters dealing with intertestamental literature and a closing essay addressing more overarching issues and themes in relation to the sacred. The volume includes chapters by Klaus Bieberstein, Roland Boer, Nora David, David Jasper, Stuart Lasine, Liv Ingeborg Lied, Chris Meredith, Jorunn Økland, Tamara Prosic, Matthew Sleeman, Cornelius de Vos, and Karen Wenell.

• Økland, Jorunn (2015). Feministisk religionskritikk fra Darwin til New Age.
• Økland, Jorunn & Showalter, Daniel N. (2015). "Interview with Jorunn Økland.". Oxford Biblical Studies Online. Show summary

  In our ongoing series, OBSO interviews Jorunn Økland, theologian and gender studies expert, discusses the outcome of a groundbreaking five-year study on women's interpretations and appropriations of Biblical text.

• Økland, Jorunn (2014). Pinsedag. Nytt norsk kirkeblad : for teologi og praksis.  ISSN 0802-9504.  42(3), s 51- 54
• Økland, Jorunn & Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (2014). Editorial. Journal of the Bible and its Reception.  ISSN 2329-4434.  1(1), s 1- 2 . doi: 10.1515/jbr-2014-0999
• Økland, Jorunn & Fongen, Elisabeth (2014). Mitt liv som feminist. St. Sunniva: Forum for Norsk Kvinnelig Teologforening.  ISSN 0808-2901.  22(2), s 29- 30
• Solevåg, Anna Rebecca; Økland, Jorunn; Hanisch, Halvor; Lid, Inger Marie; Svendby, Rannveig & Guldvik, Ingrid (2012, 29. juni). Volden mot "Det fremmede". [Internett].
• Økland, Jorunn (2012). "Corinthians, Second Epistle to the. II. Christianity", In Hans-Josef Klauck (ed.),  Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception. Vol. 5: Charisma - Czaczkes.  Walter de Gruyter.  ISBN 978-3-11-018373-3.  Artikkel.  s 789 - 792
• Økland, Jorunn (2011). Paulus og Teklas gjerninger.
• Økland, Jorunn (2011). Skaper ordet hva det nevner? Poststrukturalisme som språkteori og universalforklaring. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.  ISSN 0809-6341.  (2), s 141- 147 Show summary

  Jorunn Økland argumenterer for at en poststrukturalistisk tilnærming til språk, tekst og litteratur fortsatt har mye å bidra med, og gir eksempler fra egen forskning på dette. Samtidig påpeker hun at poststrukturalismen er mangelfull som universalforklaring på hva kjønn er.

• Økland, Jorunn (red.) (2011). Torah. Show summary

  his volume is the first in The Bible and Women series, which presents a new interpretation of the Bible and its reception in the West focused on the history of women and issues of gender. It introduces the series, explaining the choice of the Hebrew canon in connection with the Christian tradition and opening the way for a changed view of women throughout the series. The contributors explore the theological meaning of the collection of canonical writings and the social-historical background of ancient Near Eastern women’s lives, both of which play key roles in the series. Turning to the Pentateuch, essays address a variety of texts and issues still relevant today, such as creation and male-female identity in the image of God, women’s roles in the genealogies of the Pentateuch and in salvation history, the rights and responsibilities of women according to the Hebrew Bible’s legal and ritual texts, and how archaeology and iconography can illustrate the texts of the Torah.

• Økland, Jorunn (2011). Å ønske å forstå: Svar til Sindre Bangstad. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0800-336X.  28(1), s 97- 98
• Økland, Jorunn (2010). Ledelse og akademisk frihet: Fra Nedkvitne til "Hjernevask". Sosiolog-nytt.  ISSN 0333-3205.  (3), s 30- 31
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum; Halsaa, Beatrice; Økland, Jorunn & Holter, Øystein Gullvåg (2009). Kjønnsforskningskonflikten. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• Økland, Jorunn (2009). Anmeldelse av Ellen Mortensen, Cathrine Egeland, Randi Gressgård, Cathrine Holst, Kari Jegerstedt, Sissel Rosland og Kristin Sampson: Kjønnsteori. Gyldendal Akademisk, 2008. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.  ISSN 0809-6341.  1-2, s 131- 133
• Økland, Jorunn (2009). Bokanmeldelse av boka Kjønnsteori av Ellen Mortensen, Cathrine Egeland, Randi Gressgård, Cathrine HOlst, Kari Jegerstedt, Sissel Rosland og Kristin Sampson. Gyldendal Akademisk, 2008. St. Sunniva: Forum for Norsk Kvinnelig Teologforening.  ISSN 0808-2901.  17(1-2), s 32- 34
• Økland, Jorunn (2009, 30. mai). Helvete. Forestillinger og debatt. Verdibørsen P2. [Radio].  NRK P2.
• Økland, Jorunn & Hauge, Grete (2008). Oppstandelsetekstene i Det nye testamentet: Grete Hauge intervjuer Jorunn Økland. Nytt norsk kirkeblad : for teologi og praksis.  ISSN 0802-9504.  36(2), s 33- 45
• Økland, Jorunn (2000, 05. april). Christine de Pizan. [Radio].  NRK P2 : "Wok" ved journalist A. Olsen. Show summary

  Intervju ang. Christine de Pizan, Europas første profesjonelle kvinnelige forfatter

• Økland, Jorunn (2000). Disciplined reading: NT scholarship in light of Foucault¿s "L¿ordre du discours.". Show summary

  Traditionally, European New Testament scholarship has functioned like a "discipline" in the foucauldian meaning of the word, with its own internal errors/truths. The internal errors and truths have functioned to create some of the specific traits of New Testament scholarship. In this paper I will present some of the traditional internal errors and truths, and I will ask what will become of New Testament scholarship when interdisciplinary approaches are breaking down the boundaries of it as a separate discipline and thus a "system of control in the production of discourse" becomes impossible to maintain, and when the internal errors are dismantled by scholars from other fields. We do not need discipline to ensure the proliferation of fresh propositions any longer, but don¿t we need some kind of discipline to be able to speak together? The writing and reading of commentaries has been an important part of New Testament scholarship. However an exegetical Bible commentary is a very special form of "commentaire", subjugated both to the original biblical text and to many of the mechanisms of New Testament discipline. By viewing New Testament scholarly practice as "commentaire," it is maybe possible to agree on a common language in that we read a common primary text, and still avoid the exclusions, limitations and appropriations of discipline.

• Økland, Jorunn (2000, 31. mars). Feministisk bibellesning. [Radio].  NRK P2 : "Wok" v/ A. Olsen. Show summary

  Variasjon i sendetid kan forekomme.

• Økland, Jorunn (2000, 31. mars). Jesus og Maria. [Radio].  NRK P1 : Østlandssendingen. Show summary

  Intervju ang. foredrag på Humanioradagene

• Økland, Jorunn (2000, 09. april). Jesus, Marias sønn. [Radio].  NRK P2 : "Verdibørsen". Show summary

  Intervju ang. Jesu barndom og oppvekst i Galilea

• Økland, Jorunn (2000). Josef, Maria og Jesus: Forestillinger om den hellige kjernefamilien.
• Økland, Jorunn (2000). Kvinner tror - på tross av eller på grunn av.
• Økland, Jorunn (2000, 06. september). "Mannen som ble Messias". [Radio].  Oslo : NRK. Show summary

  Intervju ved Gunnar Grøndahl i forbindelse med NRK´s serie "Mannen som ble Messias" bygget rundt BBC-produksjonen "From Jesus to Christ". Jeg snakket om den historiske Jesusforskningens ideologiske "sted" og hvordan det påvirker resultatet, om hva slags spørsmål i Jesusforskningen jeg selv finner spennende, hvordan sosialhistorien og arkeologien har vært viktige korrektiver i Jesus-forskningen.

• Økland, Jorunn (2000). Strategi eller selvrespekt?. Åpen kirkegruppe.  ISSN 1502-6930.  13(1), s 13- 15
• Økland, Jorunn (2000). The Ritual Construction of Church. Show summary

  The gatherings of the earliest Christians have during the last decennia mainly been studied from a household perspective: Christians gathered in private homes, thereof the term "house church." However in the section of 1 Corinthians dealing with the Christian assembly, Paul distinguishes at several points between the house and the ekklesia that takes place within it, and he also uses naos ¿ temple - as a characterization of the ekklesia. I will view the Pauline ekklesia as a ritually constructed space that later "coagulated" into church buildings. For this purpose I will use Jonathan Smith¿s theory of ritual as an activity that creates and defines the sacred place as such. What was communicated elsewhere in the pagan environment through stones, protection walls, open spaces, altars and entrances, the first Christians had to communicate through ritual discourse. The church buildings occurring in 4th century should therefore not only be read as signs of the new position of Christianity in the Constantinian era, but also as the visible result of a long process parallel to the development of houses of worship in early Greek religion (envisaged by e.g. Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood) and in Judaism (as envisaged by Stephen Fine). Through a preliminary comparison of early houses of worship within these three traditions, I show more concretely how the emergence of houses of worship both was adjusted to serve the performance of the previously existing ritual, but also opened for new possibilities.

• Økland, Jorunn (2000). Women in their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space.
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Anmeldelse av Niels Peter Lemche og Henrik Tronier (red.): Etnicitet i Bibelen. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0029-2176.  100(2), s 133- 133
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Anmeldelse av Wagner, Ole (red.): Delfi. Tekster og artikler om Apollons helligdom. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0029-2176.  100(2), s 131- 131
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Det kristne menneske - en ny mentalitet?.
• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Feministisk resepsjon av Det Nye Testamente. Show summary

  Under publisering. Utgis som bok på Sheffield Academic Press i serien Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament Supplement Series

• Økland, Jorunn (1999). Individuelle foreldrebilder og kulturgitte gudsbilder - konflikt eller samspill?.
• Økland, Jorunn (1999, 21. oktober). Innlegg om Maud Gleason: Making Men: Sophists and Self-presentation in ancient Rome. [Radio].  Universitetet i Oslo : Antikkprosjektet "Det kristne menneske"/Teologisk fakultet. Show summary

  konstruksjon av maskulinitet i antikken

• Økland, Jorunn (1999, 30. mars). Judas og de 30 sølvpengene. [Radio].  Mammarazzi, NRK P3. Show summary

  Intervju om Judas og de 30 sølvpengene (Matteus 27, 3-10).

• Økland, Jorunn (1999, 16. november). Kvinner på det antikke religionsmarkedet. [Radio].  Teologisk fakultet : Videre- og etterutdanningskomiteen ved Det Teologiske fakultet. Show summary

  Lysbildeforedrag på etterutdanningskurs om "Det kristne menneske? Arven fra antikken. Menneskesyn og moral."

• Økland, Jorunn (1999). The curse tablets of Room 7 - evidence of women¿s rituals?. Show summary

  I take as a point of departure the Corinthian Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. In this sanctuary, eighteen curse tablets dating from the first to second centuries have been discovered. Most of the curse tablets were found in Room 7. In this room were also found other cultic vessels and possible traces of cult activity. The content of the curse tablets is following the rather standard defixio type. A quite remarkable fact is that only one of the tablets contains male names. Most of the curses are directed against women, and three tablets contain curses against the same woman. I will discuss what kind of cult activity can have taken place in Room 7, in light of the finds in the building and in light of the major changes in the sanctuary (including rebuilding Greek dining rooms into Room 7) in 1st and 2nd centuries C.E.. What do these changes tell us in terms of changed cult practices, and how was the possible cult in Room 7 related to the other cult activities in the sanctuary? I will also discuss how modern notions of gender influence our interpretation of the curse tablets and our evaluation of the cult of Room 7 as a predominantly female or male cult.

• Økland, Jorunn (1998, 20. desember). "Fides et ratio". [Radio].  Oslo : NRK P2 "Verdibørsen".
• Økland, Jorunn (1998). "Folkekirke"?. Show summary

  Innlegget setter spørsmålstegn ved "Folkekirken" som egnet myte/modell for kirkeforståelsen i et flerreligiøst samfunn.

• Økland, Jorunn (1998). Forståelse av kjønn i feministisk teori - utfordringer for teologien.
• Økland, Jorunn (1998). Godhetens pris.

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