This article sheds some light on the Norwegian Salvation Army’s attitude towards the German Nazi occupation in Norway from 1940-45. Through documents found at the Salvation Army’s International Heritage Center and the ...

Den tyske orientalisten og eksegeten Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791) spelte ei viktig rolle i arbeidet med å avskaffe bruken av gamaltestamentlege tekstar som rettskjelde i skandinavisk rettspraksis. Den katolske kyrkja ...

Artikkelen foretar en begrepsavklaring knyttet til fenomenet «protestantisme», med særlig vekt på innholdet i og anvendeligheten av den avledede prosessen «protestantisering», hvorigjennom ulike fenomener, tradisjoner eller ...

A number of scholars in the medieval Islamic West engaged with the work of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111), and he was both celebrated and criticised. Among the scholars who are allotted with a prominent role in the ...

This article presents the history of Arabic-Islamic studies in Norway, within the wider framework of Scandinavia and Europe. While Semitic studies reach well back into the sixteenth century in Sweden and Denmark, it was ...

This article explores part of the process of passing a law in the Lebanese Parliament on 1 April 2014 called “Law on the protection of women and other members of the family from domestic violence,” also known as the ...

Denne artiklene tar utgangspunkt i en av vår kulturhistories mest kjente fortellinger om en gravid og fødende kvinnekropp, Maria, Jesu mor. Jeg vil særlig se på hennes dialog med engelen før unnfangelsen. Når engelen ...

This homage to Bruce Malina describes his visit to Norway in 1986, and reviews Nordic scholarship using social science criticism in New Testament and Early Christian studies in the last 40 years. Based on a common history ...