Books by Per-Bjarne Ravnå
This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Synnøve des Bouvrie, professor of classical studies at Ui... more This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Synnøve des Bouvrie, professor of classical studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, who celebrates her seventieth birthday on 16th November 2014. Apart from the introduction, the Festschrift is divided into four parts, namely a Pars Mythologica, Philosophico-Litteraria, Thulensis, and Latinitatis Vivae. Twelve articles have been written in English, seven in Latin, four in Norwegian and a single article in each of the languages French, Sami and Swedish. A biographical interview is also included, along with several illustrations made by Synnøve herself. The book has been edited by Per Pippin Aspaas (Tromsø), Sigrid Albert (Saarbrücken) and Fredrik Nilsen (Tromsø).
Papers by Per-Bjarne Ravnå
Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2021
Prominent scholars in the field of historical Jesus research have argued that historians should b... more Prominent scholars in the field of historical Jesus research have argued that historians should be willing to accept all sorts of miracles that are convincingly attested to in the sources. The present article agrees with this view in principle but argues that, if analysed with the ordinary source-critical methods of conventional historical scholarship, there are significant and systematic differences in the source-critical strength of the stories. Miracles that fit inside a modern scientific worldview seem to have a stronger foundation in the sources than miracles that do not. The difference is quite clear when one compares the stories about how Jesus raised the dead, but it is also visible when one compares stories of other miracles. There are at least two ways of explaining these differences. One is that they are created by the scepticism of the modern scientific worldview of this writer. The other is that the differences exist in the sources because some of the miracle stories go...
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2020
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