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Tobias Hägerland

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and
Religion
Telephone
+46 31-786 43 84
Mail
tobias.hagerland@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and
Religion
Mail
tobias.hagerland@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
C646
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Tobias Hägerland

I am a senior lecturer in Religious Studies and Theology, specialising in Biblical Studies, at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion. After earning my doctoral degree from the University of Gothenburg, I was employed as a researcher and teacher at Lund University from 2009 to 2017. At Lund I was appointed Reader in New Testament Studies in 2015.

My current research is focused on New Testament texts as expressions of emergent Christianity in the early second century, and I am currently working on a scholarly commentary on the Pastoral Epistles in Swedish. As part of the research programme At the End of the World, which is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, I will investigate apocalyptic motives and notions in such second-century early Christian texts.

Another research interest of mine is the influence of ancient education on New Testament texts. I have investigated parts of the Synoptic Gospels from this perspective, and I am now preparing a couple of publications pertaining to Paul and his location within the Hellenistic tradition of paideia. My previous research was devoted to questions about the historical Jesus, and within that field I published my dissertation on Jesus and the forgiveness of sins, two international conference volumes, several articles and a book co-authored with Cecilia Wassen in Swedish (a revised and expanded English version has been published on T&T Clark).

One of my concerns is to contribute to high scholarly and pedagogical standards of education. I am the main supervisor for Johanna Larsdal's PhD project, and my former doctoral student Tobias Ålöw defended his thesis successfully in 2020. Currently (2021-2024), I serve as Assistant Head of Department for Education.

Additionally, I have engaged occasionally in public debate about collegiality, professionalism and true viewpoint diversity in the academy, and I am a member of Heterodox Academy.