Ola Wikander

Ola Wikander

Senior lecturer, Reader

Personal profile

Research

Research

My dissertation ("Drought, Death and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel") concentrated on the link between ancient Ugaritic religion and language and the Hebrew linguistic and religious culture expressed in the Old Testament. I primarily work with philological material from the Ancient Near East, including texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Hittite and Luwian. I have also written about subjects as the classical Hebrew tense system in the light of comparative language typology. Other research interests include ancient Gnostic and Gnosticizing literature, especially its relation to historical motifs from the OT world. I have published annotated translations from Ugaritic and Akkadian, and also popular works on comparative linguistics. I have done work on early Indo-European motifs in the world of the OT, Northwest Semitic histocial phonology, as well as on a project on what philology and exegetics can teach us about communcating into the future about nuclear waste management.

UKÄ subject classification

  • Religious Studies
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Specific Languages
  • History of Religions

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Ola Wikander is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
  • 1 Similar Profiles

Collaborations the last five years

Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or