Reidar Aasgaard

General area of responsibility

• Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Main interests and special competence

• Social structures in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Religions of Antiquity
• Early Christianity
• The New Testament
• Approaches to interpretation of texts
• Methods for biblical interpretation
• Early Christian apocryphal writings
• Augustine
• The history of childhood
• Bob Dylan and modern popular culture
• Translation of classical and early Christian texts
• Norway in the 19^th century
• Hymnology
• Languages: Latin and Greek

Courses, regular and other

• IDE2022 Augustine of all times
• IDE2053 Young rebels from Antiquity to Greta Thunberg
• IDE2084 Bob Dylan: interpreter of traditions and cultural mirror
• IDE2018 Jesus in the history of ideas: the figure of Christ in the past and today
• IDE2021 Late Antiquity: belief and disbelief
• IDE1104: History of ideas/Intellectual history from Antiquity to 1600

Experience and assignments (selection)

• Professor in History of ideas/Intellectual history, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, 2009 - present
• Project director, Norwegian Bible Society, 2008-2009
• Assistant and associate professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 1998-2008
• Researcher and Bible translator, Norwegian Bible Society, 2000-2002
• Minister, Church of Norway, 1983-1993
• Project director, "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", 2013-2017.
• Editor-in-charge of the New Testament, Store Norske Leksikon (Big Norwegian Lexicon, web-based) see here

Education

• Dr. theol., Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 1999
• Doctoral student, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 1993-1998
• Practical-theological seminary, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 1983
• Cand. theol., Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 1982
• Cand. mag., Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, 1979 (Latin and Knowledge of Christianity)

CV

• See CV here.

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