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Tryggve Mettinger

Religious Studies

#992

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#1828

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Biblical Studies

#158

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#198

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Tryggve Mettinger's Degrees

PhD Theology Lund University

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According to Wikipedia, Tryggve Mettinger is a retired professor of Hebrew Bible, at Lund University, Sweden, where he taught from 1978 to 2003. Life and work Between 1960 and 1978, Mettinger studied various subjects, such as Semitics, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Comparative Literature, at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen. He later earned his doctorate in 1971, worked as docent of Old Testament exegesis, and subsequently was appointed professor at Lund University, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 2003. He has had visiting professor positions in the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He was awarded the Thuréus prize 2008 by the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Societeten in Uppsala. Between 1978 and 2003, he was one of the editors of the monograph series Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series. Mettinger served as an expert consultant for the official Swedish Bible translation committee, whose work led to the creation of the Bibel 2000 translation. He is a member of various learned societies, such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm and the Society for Old Testament Study . He has also been a guest lecturer at many universities and delivered papers at many conferences devoted to Old Testament study, Assyriology and Comparative Religion. He has described his epistemological attitude towards studying religious texts using the following words: "I try to draw a line [of demarcation] between what I believe I know as a scholar and what I know I believe as a Christian."

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Tryggve Mettinger's Published Works

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The Dethronement of Sabaoth. Studies in the Shem and Kabod Theologies (1984) (49)
No Graven Image? Israelite Aniconism in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (2013) (46)
In Search of God: The Meaning and Message of the Everlasting Names (2005) (33)
The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: Leshakken Shemo Sham in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (2002) (25)
The Riddle of Resurrection: "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient near East (2003) (18)
A farewell to the servant songs: A critical examination of an exegetical axiom (1983) (17)
The Eden narrative (2007) (12)
King and Messiah: The Civil and Sacral Legitimation of the Israelite Kings (2015) (12)
The Eden narrative : a literary and religio-historical study of Genesis 2-3 (2007) (10)
Fighting the powers of chaos and hell — towards the Biblical portrait of God (1985) (9)
The absence of images : the problem of the aniconic cult at Gades and its religio-historical background. (2004) (5)
8. A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple? (2015) (5)
Terje Stordalen: Echoes of Eden. Genesis 2–3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature (2003) (5)
In Search of the Hidden Structure: Yhwh as King in Isaiah 40-55 (1997) (4)
The 'dying and rising god' : a survey of research from Frazer to the present day (2004) (4)
THE ROOTS OF ANICONISM: AN ISRAELITE PHENOMENON IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (1997) (4)
The Veto on Images and the aniconic God in Ancient Israel (2014) (2)
5. The Name and the Glory: The Zion–Sabaoth Theology and Its Exilic Successors (2015) (1)
Reports from a Scholar's Life (2015) (1)
THE NOMINALPATTERN “QeTULLA” IN BIBLICAL HEBREW (1971) (1)
Amarna letter no. 84 : Damu, Adonis, and 'The Living God' at Byblos (2004) (1)
Cui bono? : the Prophecy of Nathan (2 Sam. 7) as a piece of political rhetoric (2005) (1)
Chap. V. Eshmun-Asclepius (2001) (0)
Chap. VI. Comparative perspectives: Osiris and the west semitic gods (2001) (0)
Timo Veijola 1947-2005 (2006) (0)
6. The “Dying and Rising God”: The Peregrinations of a Mytheme (2015) (0)
TRYGGVE N. D. METTINGER, The elimination of a crux? A syntactie and semantic study of Isaiah XL 18-20 (1974) (0)
Enigmas and Images Studies in Honor of (2011) (0)
Timo Veijola: His Life and His Work (2008) (0)
Chap. VII. Comparative perspectives: Dumuzi-Tammuz and the west semitic gods (2001) (0)
Chap. II. Ugaritic Baal (2001) (0)
Chap. IV. Adon(is) (2001) (0)
Review of "Nathan’s Promise in 2 Samuel 7 and Related Texts" (2006) (0)
Pirjo Lapinkivi, The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence (2007) (0)
Bertil Albrektson: Text, Translation, Theology. Selected Essays on the Hebrew Bible (2011) (0)
Hananim-ui irumdul : yongwonhan irumdur-ui uima-wa mesiji (2006) (0)
Review of "The Hebrew God: Portrait of an ancient deity" (2003) (0)
Chap. III. Melqart-Heracles (2001) (0)
Review of "Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World" (2004) (0)

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Lund University