Knut Holter - NLA

Knut Holter

Professor

NLA University College | Kalfaret, Bergen

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Publications

Scientific publications

Laamdo som alternativ gudsbetegnelse til Allah i bibeloversettelsen til Mali-fulani

Anne Lise Matre, Knut Holter

"Vi vet noe om Zanahary som dere ikke vet": Kristningen av afrikanske gudsbetegnelser som strategisk og etisk spørsmål

Knut Holter

Gold and precious stones from Madagascar to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem: An aspect of the concept of ancient Israelite migration to Africa

Knut Holter

'Not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament': Colonial and contextual biblical interpretation vis-à-vis Africa

Knut Holter

The Theological Significance of Africa and Africans in the Bible

Knut Holter

'The word comes to the element, and so there is a sacrament': Sacramentalization of religious practices with water and oil in the ministry of an Aladura prophet in Nigeria

Knut Holter

Towards a better understanding of prophetism in Africa?

Knut Holter

Am I my brother's keeper? Justice and transformation in a Malagasy-Norwegian dialogue (Genesis 4)

Knut Holter

Dialogue and interpretative power

Knut Holter

Let my people stay! : a research project on Africanization of Old Testament studies

Knut Holter

Let my people stay! : a research project on Africanization of Old Testament studies

Knut Holter

"En neger, naturligvis en slave" : en side ved kolonitidens tolkning av Det gamle testemente

Knut Holter

Some interpretive experiences with Isaiah in Africa

Knut Holter

The institutional context of Old Testament scholarship in Africa

Knut Holter

Gammeltestamentlig forskning mellom Sahara og Zambezi

Knut Holter

Å lese Hosea 2 i en santal-landsby

Knut Holter, Torbjørn Hestnes

The Maasai and the ancient Israelites : an early 20th century interpretation of the Maasai in East Africa

Knut Holter

Det gamle testamente og misjonen

Knut Holter

Thou shalt not smoke: Content and context in the Lord's Resistance Army's concept of the Ten Commandments

Knut Holter

Did Prince Cetshwayo read the Old Testament in 1859? : the role of the Bible and the art of reading in the interaction between Norwegian missionaries and the Zulu elite in the mid-19th century

Knut Holter

Malagasy Old Testament scholarship in relation to some major interpretative strategies of African Old Testament scholarship

Knut Holter

When biblical scholars talk about "global" biblical interpretation

Knut Holter

Sjangeren bibelkommentar - og 'Afrika'

Knut Holter

Bibeltolkning og bibeloversettelse i afrikansk akademia Bible interpretation and Bible translation in African academia

Knut Holter

The first generation of African Old Testament scholars : African concerns and Western influence

Knut Holter

Bibeloversettelse som fag og utdanning Bible interpretation as profession and discipline

Knut Holter

Søren Bruun Bugge og misjonen: Fra aktiv lekmann til passiv prest

Knut Holter

Jahve og Dagon: Et eksempel på en misjonsteologisk tilnærming til et gammeltestamentlig religionsmøte

Knut Holter

Die Parallelismen in Jes 50,11aba – im Hebräischen und Syrischen Text

Knut Holter

The serpent in Eden as a symbol of Israel’s political enemies: A Yahwistic criticism of the Solomonic foreign policy?

Knut Holter

Missiology and the Old Testament theology of religions

Knut Holter

The current state of Old Testament scholarship in Africa: Where are we at the turn of the century?

Knut Holter

To the question of an ethics of Bible translation: Some reflections in relation to Septuagint Isaiah 6:1 and 19:25

Knut Holter

'Den andre leseren' som tolkningsmessig inspirasjon og korrektiv: Noen erfaringer med interkulturell bibellesning blant ungdom

Knut Holter

No Graven Image? Reading the Second Commandment in a Thai Context

Kari Storstein Haug, Knut Holter

The "poor" in ancient Israel - and in contemporary African biblical studies

Knut Holter

Old Testament studies and social transformation in Africa

Knut Holter

Interpretive context matters: Isaiah and the African context in African study bibles

Knut Holter

Isak - the son of the rainmaker - and the Bible: An example of resistance hermeneutics in Zululand around 1870

Knut Holter

Being like the Cushites : Some Western and African interpretations of Amos 9:7

Knut Holter

Malagasy, Thai, and Norwegian Youths Reading Luke 15 Together

Knut Holter

"A Negro, naturally a slave" : an aspect of the portrayal of Africans in colonial Old Testament interpretation

Knut Holter

"Like living in Old Testament times" : the interpretation of assumed affinities between traditional African culture and the Old Testament

Knut Holter

Let my people stay! : researching the Old Testament in Africa

Knut Holter

A conference volume on the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary Africa

Knut Holter

What shall we do with the Canaanites? An ethical perspective on Genesis 12:6

Knut Holter

Some recent studies on postcolonialism and biblical scholarship

Knut Holter

Trøst, ja, trøst mitt folk! Jesaja 40-55 og sjelesorgen

Knut Holter

Zur Funktion der Städte Judas in Jes xl 9

Knut Holter

Gammeltestamentlig religionsteologi som ressurskilde for misjonsteologien. En presentasjon og vurdering av noen aktuelle synspunkter

Knut Holter

Contextualized Old Testament programmes?

Knut Holter, Samson Gitau, Tewoldemedhin Habtu, Victor Zinkuratire

Interpreting Solomon in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Knut Holter

Global tekst i lokal tapning

Knut Holter

Pregnancy and Psalms: Aspects of the Healing Ministry of a Nigerian Prophet

Knut Holter

The Maasai and the Old Testament : marking the centennial of M. Merker's monograph on the Maasai

Knut Holter

Bildeforbudet i Det gamle testamente

Knut Holter

Women and war in Northern Uganda and ancient Israel : the interpretative role of academia

Knut Holter

Doing biblical studies in poverty contexts: Some African experiences and concerns

Knut Holter

The Maasai and the ancient Israelites: Religio-cultural parallels

Knut Holter

Texts of affirmation rather than negation: Jesse N. K. Mugambi and African biblical studies

Knut Holter

The left hand washes the right and the right hand washes the left : some remarks to the use of African proverbs in Old Testament proverb scholarship

Knut Holter

Sub-Saharan African doctoral dissertations in Old Testament studies, 1967-2000 : some remarks to their chronology and geography

Knut Holter

Does a dialogue between Africa and Europe make sense?

Knut Holter

Is it necessary to be black?

Knut Holter

Old Testament scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Knut Holter

Two recent research contributions from Kinshasa

Knut Holter

Not another journal -?!

Knut Holter

Men det er bare én bok som leser meg! Noen linjer i afrikansk tolkning av Det gamle testamente

Knut Holter

Old Testament researchers north of the Limpopo: A bibliography of doctoral dissertations

Knut Holter

Was Philistine Dagon a fish-god? Some new questions and an old answer

Knut Holter

It’s not only a question of money. African Old Testament scholarship between the myths and meanings of the south and the money and methods of the north

Knut Holter

Å skape guder i menneskets bilde

Knut Holter

Whose book is it, by the way? : an aspect of popular and scholarly strategies for interpreting the Bible in Africa

Knut Holter

Hva i all verden skal vi bruke Jesaja 41,8-13 til? : noen refleksjoner om bibeltolkning og bibelbruk

Knut Holter

The first generation of African Old Testament scholars: The geographical hermeneutics of their academic training

Knut Holter

Global hermeneutics? : reflections and consequences

Knut Holter, Louis C. Jonker

The role of historical-critical methodology in African Old Testament studies

Knut Holter

“If a King Judges the Poor with Fairness, His Throne is Established Forever”: Approaching Proverbs 29:14 with African Interpretive Resources

Knut Holter

David Tuesday Adamo’s Academic Context: Nigerian Biblical Studies Navigating Between African Interpretive Concerns and Western Scholarly Traditions

Knut Holter

'My punishment is greater than I can bear' : Malagasy and Norwegian ordinary readers on Genesis 4:13

Knut Holter

The second commendmant and the question of human dignity in Africa : a creation-theological perspective

Knut Holter

Bibeloversettelse som studium ved Misjonshøgskolen Bible translation as a study program

Knut Holter

Challenging the Christian monopoly on the Bible : an aspect of the encounter between Christianity and Malagasy traditional religion in contemporary Madagascar

Georges Razafindrakoto, Knut Holter

Jan-Martin Berentsen som lærer

Knut Holter

Interpreting classical religious texts in contemporary Africa

Knut Holter

Fascination and challenge : a response to Maarman Samuel Tshehla

Knut Holter

Religious texts in critical contexts : the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary African academia

Knut Holter

An American axe and the power of God's word: Concepts of technological and religious superiority in the encounter between Norwegian missionaries and Zulu royalty in the 1860s

Knut Holter

Africa in the Old Testament

Knut Holter

Afrikansk gammeltestamentlig forskning i spenning mellom Sørs myter og Nords metoder

Knut Holter

The Wordplay on el (‘God’) in Isaiah 45,20-21

Knut Holter

Should Old Testament ‘Cush’ be rendered ‘Africa’?

Knut Holter

Nabots vingård: En fortelling om makt, eiendom og rettferdighet i Det gamle testamente

Knut Holter

A Note on sby/sbyh in Isa 52,2

Knut Holter

Is there a need for a pan-African and non-denominational organisation for biblical scholarship?

Knut Holter

Det gamle testamente og misjonen

Knut Holter

Det gamle testamente og misjonen

Knut Holter

Old Testament Proverbs Studies

Knut Holter

Literary critical studies of Deut 4: Some criteriological remarks

Knut Holter

A Note on the Old Testament Background of Rom 1,23-27

Knut Holter

Relocating Keil & Delitzsch: Reading a mid-19th Century Bible commentary from Germany with early 21st century theology students from Tanzania and Norway

Knut Holter

Geographical and institutional aspects of global Old Testament studies

Knut Holter

My father was a migrant Aramean : Old Testament motifs for a theology of migration

Knut Holter

Isaiah and Africa

Knut Holter

Muslim and Christian Interaction with regard to Old Testament Interpretation in Africa

Knut Holter

Sub-Saharan Reception of Masenya’s Bosadi Approach

Knut Holter, Jorunn Bjerga

Other publications

Der synagogen og kirken snakker hebraisk sammen

Knut Holter

Påstått jødiske grupper i Afrika

Knut Holter

Om å slå folk i hodet med Shakespeare eller Bibelen

Knut Holter

Jesaja og bibellesere langs Nilen

Knut Holter

Inclusive Education, English and Religious subjects in the Norwegian Teacher Education

Astrid Haugestad, Knut Holter

Høymesseliturgiens bruk av tekster fra Det gamle testamentet

Knut Holter

Er svarte afrikanere de egentlige jødene?

Knut Holter

Noahs barnebarn og afrikansk bibeltolkning

Knut Holter

Afrikanske tolkningskontekster og norske tekstrekker

Knut Holter

Går det an å se for seg et NMS uavhengig av Den norske kirke?

Knut Holter

Tekstrefleksjon over Jesaja 49,1-7

Knut Holter

Handbook of Christian Prophetism in Africa

Knut Holter, Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Recent literature on Old Testament translation in Africa

Knut Holter

Moa Mpitandrina ny Rahalahiko va aho? Malagasy sy Norveziana Miara-Mandinika ny Baiboly ao amin'ny Genesisy 4 sy ny Lioka 15

Knut Holter

Det handler om kontekst, men også om tekst, selvfølgelig : Misjonshøgskolen hilser Menighetsfakultetet ved hundreårsfeiringen

Knut Holter

Contextualized Old Testament scholarship in Africa

Knut Holter

Maasai Encounters with the Bible

Knut Holter, Lemburis Justo

Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament

Knut Holter

Second Isaiah's Idol-fabrication Passages

Knut Holter

Comparative Methodologies in African Biblical Hermeneutics: Analysis of Past Approaches as a Foundation for Engaging Epistemologies in Tri-Polar Comparisons

Beth E. Elness-Hanson, Knut Holter

Old Testament Research for Africa: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography of African Old Testament Dissertations, 1967-2000

Knut Holter

Presteutdanning som investering i fremtiden

Knut Holter

The 'Africanization of Old Testament Studies' project

Knut Holter

Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999

Knut Holter, Mary Getui, Victor Zinkuratire

Nanokatra ny sain'ireo Izy: Ny Missiolojia sy ny Testamenta Taloha

Knut Holter

Tropical Africa and the Old Testament: A Select and Annotated Bibliography

Knut Holter

Context of a contextual project on the Maasai and the Bible

Knut Holter

Samklang: Det gamle testamentet i Den norske kirkes prekener

Terje Stordalen, Anders Aschim, Kåre Berge, Knut Holter, Kristin Joachimsen, Marta Høyland Lavik

Jerusalem, Samaria og jordens ender : bibeltolkninger tilegnet Magnar Kartveit, 65 år, 7. oktober 2011

Knut Holter, Jostein Ådna

La recherche en Ancien Testament dans le contexte africain

Knut Holter

Halvannet århundre med internasjonale studenter ved Misjonshøgskolen : hva har vi gjort og hva har vi lært?

Knut Holter

Fandalinana Testamenta Taloha mihatra ami-kontexta any Afrika sy Madagasikara

Knut Holter

Comparative Methodologies in African Biblical Hermeneutics: Analysis of Past Approaches as a Foundation for Engaging Epistemologies in Tri-Polar Comparisons

Beth E. Elness-Hanson, Knut Holter

Hilsen til en kollega

Knut Holter, Jostein Ådna

Deuteronomy 4 and the second commandment

Knut Holter