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Hannah Strømmen

Hannah Strømmen

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As a biblical scholar specializing in biblical reception history, I teach and research the impact and influence of the Bible in politics and culture. Before coming to Lund, I was Reader in Biblical Studies at the University of Chichester, UK.

My first book was on Jacques Derrida, animal studies, and the Bible (Biblical Animality after Jacques Derrida, SBL Press, 2018). More recently, I have been researching Bible-use in the contemporary European far right. With Ulrich Schmiedel I wrote The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right (SCM Press, 2020), and my monograph, The Bibles of the Far Right was published in 2024 (Oxford University Press). 

My main interests in biblical studies lie in reception studies and contextual biblical interpretation and Bible-use. I'm on the editorial board for the SBL monograph series The Bible and its Reception, and The Yearbook of Contextual Biblical Interpretation. Since 2019 I have also been on the editorial committee of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. 

With a broader interest in Political Theology and Critical Theory, I'm a member of the editorial collective of the Political Theology​ journal, and am on the editorial board of The Bible and Critical Theory journal. For the European Association of Biblicsl Studies, I am co-chair of the Reading, Theory, and Poetics research group, and for the Society of Biblical Literature I am on the steering committee for the Reading, Theory, and the Bible program unit as well as the Use, Influence and Impact of the Bible program unit.

Currently, I am leading a Wallenberg-funded project, 'Scripture and Secularism', with a team of postdocs and a doctoral student. This project is a reception history inquiry into the way biblical texts are interpreted as sources for the secular and the way biblical texts continue to circulate in so-called secular spaces.

In addition to my WAF-funded 'Scripture and Secularism' project, I am part of the research programme, At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Present and Past.

Since 2018, I'm a Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA, where I participated in the interdisciplinary inquiry on Religion and Violence. As part of this, I have contributed to UN consultations on religion and polarization.

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