Jorunn Økland (born 1964) is a Norwegian

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

expert and biblical scholar with a background in Classics. She is currently Director at the Norwegian Institute at Athens (from 2016) and Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

(from 2007), and former Director of its Centre for Gender Research (2010-2013). Her fields of expertise are Pauline Studies, ancient mediterranean material culture, feminist critique of religion, gender and sacred texts, Bible translation, and cultural/secular uses of the Bible. In the period 2000-2009 she was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biblical Studies,

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

. She has led several research projects, was co-founder and the first managing editor of the ''Journal of the Bible and Its Reception'' (de Gruyter 2014-). She was President of the European Association of Biblical Studies (2009–12) and chair of the Council for Gender Studies in Norway (2010-2011). She has also held further positions of trust in international research associations and has since 2016 been member of Council (a board of directors) of Society of Biblical Literature. She has been a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Study at the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

on two projects.Jorunn Økland
Centre for Gender Research She is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected publications

*with Christine Amadou: ''From Akershus to Acropolis: Norwegian Travelers to Greece.'' Athen: The Norwegian Institute at Athens, 2019. https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/11250/2734382 *with Karen Wenell og Cornelis de Vos: ''Constructions of Space III: Biblical Spatiality and the Sacred.'' London: Bloomsbury, 2016 *''The Letters of Paul/ "Paulus’ brev"'' edited and introduced, in the series Verdens Hellige Skrifter, Oslo, 2010. *with William John Lyons: ''The Way the World Ends? The Apocalypse in Culture and Ideology''. Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009. * with

Turid Karlsen Seim Turid Karlsen Seim (8 October 1945 – 3 November 2016) was a Norwegian doctor of theology. from 1991 until her death, the professor of New Testament theology at the University of Oslo. Biography Seim was born at Bergen, Norway. Seim was a cand.th ...

: ''Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianities''. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. . * with

Roland Boer Roland Boer is an Australian theologian and scholar of Marxism. He was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2014. Career Boer obtained a bachelors degree in divinity from the University of Sydney. He was a professor at University of Newcast ...

: ''Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible''. Sheffield Phoenix Press 2008. . * ''Women in their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space''. London: Continuum, 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Okland, Jorunn Norwegian theologians Christian feminist theologians Gender studies academics Feminist studies scholars Academic staff of the University of Oslo Living people 1964 births 21st-century Protestant theologians Norwegian biblical scholars Christian feminist biblical scholars Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people Academics of the University of Sheffield