Gabriella Gelardini

Gabriella Gelardini is professor of Christianity, Religion, Worldview, and Ethics at Nord University in Norway. Her areas of research are the New Testament and its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts, as well as Flavius Josephus. She is particularly interested in the Epistle to the Hebrews along with the ancient synagogue, in the Gospel of Mark along with ancient military, and also in ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. New Testament exegesis, and in this context especially the works of Albert Vanhoye on Hebrews, sensitized her to the concept of symmetries in ancient texts. The knowledge of this has had a profound influence on her view of ancient texts and texts in general. Among her publications are Hebrews: Contemporary Methods—New Insights (ed. 2005), “Verhärtet eure Herzen nicht”: Der Hebräer, eine Synagogenhomilie zu Tischa be-Aw (2007), Christus Militans: Studien zur politisch-militärischen Semantik im Markusevangelium vor dem Hintergrund des ersten jüdisch-römischen Krieges (2016), and Hebrews in Contexts (ed. 2016).