Katja Kujanpää

In my postdoctoral project, I look at questions related to scriptural authority and the identity of early Christians. 

Research interests: textual authority, early Christianity, quotations, the Septuagint, social identity approach, textual criticism of the Septuagint, Apostolic Fathers, 1-2 Clement, Paul’s letters

1/2020-   Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki

8/2018-12/2019  Postdoctoral researcher, Centre of Excellence Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions, University of Helsinki

2/2018 Doctor of Theology, University of Helsinki

• Doctoral Dissertation: Argumentation by Quotations: The Rhetorical Functions of Scriptural Quotations in Romans. Grade: Pass with Distinction

• Major: New Testament Studies
• Minor: Greek Language and Literature

International Mobility

• Visiting researcher at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 1/2019–4/2019 
• Visiting researcher at the Durham University, UK, 9/2014–6/2015
• Exchange year at Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany, 2010–2011

Pedagogical Competence

University Pedagogy Training, University of Helsinki

• Constructive Alignment in Course Design, 5 ETCS (UP 2.1), 2019               
• Teaching and learning in Higher Education, 5 ETCS (UP 1), 2016                                                                      
• Assessment of learning and giving feedback, 5 ETCS (UP4), 2016
• Pedagogical Studies (teacher training for secondary school), 60 ETCS, University of Helsinki, 2013

Teaching at the University of Helsinki

• Teacher of the course Introduction to New Testament Greek, Faculty of Theology
• Teacher of the course The Text, Research and Theology of the New Testament, Faculty of Theology, 2018
• Teacher of a Greek workshop, Faculty of Theology, 2017
• Tutor of academic writing in the module Biblical Studies in Practice, Faculty of Theology, 2017
• Lecturer and course assistant in Introduction to the New Testament, Faculty of Theology, 2016
• Teacher of the course Introduction to New Testament Greek, Faculty of Theology
• Tutor of academic writing in the module Biblical Studies in Practice, Faculty of Theology, 2014
• Assistant at a master’s thesis seminar, Faculty of Theology, 2013-14

Awards and Prizes

• Student Prize for the best New Testament Paper, European Association of Biblical Studies, 2015
• Master’s Thesis Award of the Finnish Exegetical Society, 2013
• Scholarship from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst foundation for an exchange year in Germany, 2010–11

Other Academic Activity

•  Member of the Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions, 2014–19
• Member of the Young Academy of Finland (connected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters), 6/2018-
• Chair of the Programme Unit The Roman Forum in the European Association of Biblical Studies, 2015–17

2/2018    Doctor of Theology, University of Helsinki

5/2013   Master of Theology, University of Helsinki

5/2010   Bachelor of Theology, University of Helsinki