Clarence E. Glad

Clarence E. Glad
Born in Iceland on June 24th, 1956

Education

Academic positions, research and teaching

A. Teaching

1. Part and full time lecturer at the Faculty of Theology, University of Iceland, 1994-1999, and in the fall semesters of 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the winter of 2005-2006.
2. Part time Grammar school teacher in philosophy, history of religions and latin at Menntaskólann at Sund, since 2000.
3. Associate professor at Copenhagen University, Det teologiske Fakultet - Institut for Bibelsk Eksegese, 1997-1998.
4. Part time lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Iceland, 1996-1997.
5. Brown College, Providence, Rhode Island, 1985-1988.

B. Research

1. 2002-2006
   Paul’s letter to the Romans in the work of Icelandic and Danish theologians.
2. 2000-2004/5
   Translation work for the Icelandic Literary Society:
   Clemens Alexandrinus: Quis dives salvetur and Paedagogus I.
3. 1991-2006

• Research supported by the Icelandic Centre for Research (Post-doctoral research Fellow at the Centre and the Institute of Theology at the University of Iceland, 1993-1997):
• Manuscript traditions, Bible translations and the formation of Icelandic folk belief (2004-2006)
• Classical Education in Iceland (2001-2003).
• New Testament theology in light of sociohistorical studies of early Christianity (1997-2000).
• Early Christian Psychagogy (1st - 3rd cent. CE)in its Greco-Roman Philosophical Context (1993-1996).
• Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity (1991-1992).

Publications

A. Books and translations

1. Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedagogus I. Icelandic translation, with introduction and critical notes. Reykjavík: Icelandic Literary Society, 2004. In Icelandic.
2. The Quest for the Text. The New Testament and the beginning of Christianity. Reykjavik: Grettis-Academy / The University Press, 2004. In Icelandic.
3. Clemens Alexandrinus, Quis dives salvetur. Icelandic translation, with introduction and critical notes. Reykjavík: Icelandic Literary Society, 2002. In Icelandic.
4. Philodemus, On Frank Criticism. With Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by David Konstan, Diskin Clay, Clarence E. Glad, Johan C. Thom and James Ware. SBL Texts and Translations 43; Graeco-Roman Series 13. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1998.
5. Paul´s letter to the Galatians. New translation, with critical notes and apparatus. Reykjavík: The Icelandic Bible Society, 1996. In Icelandic.
6. Paul and Philodemus. Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy. NovTSup 81; Leiden / New York / Köln: E. J. Brill, 1995.
7. Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy. Paul and Philodemus. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1992 (Ph.D. thesis).

B. Booklet

1. The diatribe in Paul’s psychagogy in Romans. Research booklets of the Institute of Theology at the University of Iceland. Reykjavik: The University of Iceland, 1996. In Icelandic.

C. Book chapters

1. “The rhetoric of moral exhortation in Clement’s Pedagogue,” James M. Starr & Troels Engberg-Pedersen, edd., Early Christian Paraenesis in Context (Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 433-465.
2. “Paul and Adaptability.” J. Paul Sampley, ed., Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook (Trinity Press International, 2003), 17-41.
3. “Relics, archeology of knowledge, and the history of ideas—A methodological prolegomenon to a New Testament theology,” Forum for Bibelsk Eksegese. Bind 10, Bibel og historieskrifning (Københavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1999), 200-221.
4. “Theology of the New Testament in light of sociohistorical studies of early Christianity,” in Milli himins of jarðar (edd. Anna Agnarsdóttir, Pétur Pétursson, and Torfi Tuliníus. Reykjavík: The University Press, 1997), 175-193. In Icelandic.
5. “Frank Speech, Flattery, and Friendship in Philodemus,” in Fitzgerald, John T., ed., Friendship, Flattery, and Frankness of Speech. Studies on Friendship in the New Testament World (NovTSup 82; Leiden / New York / Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996), 21-59.

D. Articles

1. „Theology of the New Testament. A vestige of outdated ideas?” Glíman 3. árg. 2006, 57-76.
2. „Unused human resources?“ Paper read at the autum conference of the Icelandic Centre for Research on November 25th, 2005. ReykjavíkurAkademían, Rannsóknir og störf 2005 (Reykjavík, 2006), 6-8.
3. “A Faculty of Theology without Greek!” Studia theologica Islandica 17 (Reykjavik, 2003), 42-64. In Icelandic.
4. “On the ‘truthfulness’ of the resurrection. An evaluation of the thesis of Gerd Lüdemann,” Orðið. Rit Félags guðfrœðinema 35. árg. (1999), 45-63. In Icelandic.
5. “Rudolf Bultmann and Jón Sveinbjörnsson. A theological and humanistic interpretation of the New Testament,” Studia theologica Islandica 13 (Reykjavík, 1998), 53-75. In Icelandic.
6. “The Authority of the Bible in light of historical criticism,” Kirkjuritið (63. árg., júní, 1997), 12-34. In Icelandic.
7. “The Significance of Hellenistic Psychagogy for Our Understanding of Paul,” in Studia theologica Islandica 10 (Reykjavik, 1996), 57-93. In English.
8. “A reading and an exegesis of 1 Corinthians 8. A pedagogical dispute in Corinth,” Studia theologica Islandica 9 (Reykjavik, 1994), 55-106. In Icelandic.

E. Electronic publications

1. The family, marriage and celibacy in early Christianity. April 24th, 2006. http://www.gudfraedi.is (15 pp.).
2. The Bible and the curx of interpretation: Paul’s letters and homosexuality. April 3th, 2006. http://www.gudfraedi.is (14 pp.)
3. The Bible and the challenge of interpretation. April 3th, 2006. Co-author: dr. Kristinn Ólason. http://www.gudfraedi.is (32 pp.).
4. Unused human resources? Paper read at the autum conference of the Icelandic Centre for Research on November 25th, 2005. http://www.akademia.is/ra2002/umraedan/vannyttur.htm and http.//www.rannis.is (4 pp.)
5. Theology of the New Testament. A vestige of outdated ideas? October 1st, 2005. http://www.kistan.is/gliman/greinar (aprox. 19 pp.).
6. The Authority of the Bible in light of historical criticism. 2. ed. June 25th, 2005. http://www.kirkjan.is/samkynhneigdogkirkja/ greinar (apprx. 36 pp.)
7. The North-South dichotomy in its European context. June 12th, 2005. http://www.akademia.is/imagesofthenorth/ (apprx. 9 pp.).
8. „Early Christian gospel traditions, antagonistic views towards Jews and anti-semitism.” Lecture delivered March 11, 2004, after the showing of The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson. In Icelandic on www.dec.hi.

Classical Education in Iceland. Reykjavík: Hið íslenska Bókmenntafélag (Forthcoming). In Icelandic [apprx. 500 pp.].

The book traces during the past two hundred and fifty years the history of classical studies in the Icelandic educational system and explains its “decline” by reference to changes in attitude in the society towards the importance and value of different disciplines in light of demands for their general usefulness. The book attempts to lay bare the different points of view represented in the debate over the value of Greek and Latin at different educational levels, both in the field of classics and theology. The book is based on detailed research of primary sources, including school manuals and catalogues, examination and reading lists, parlimentary discussions and passed laws, as well as official memorandum and minutes.
I have used a broad definition of classics as that of Greco-Roman antiquity, including Biblical texts and authors as well as “classical” Greco-Roman ones. This understanding of the “classical” tradition was common among Icelandic and Danish intellectuals in the early part of the 19th century. The book discusses in detail the debate over the value of classical education in the Nordic countries in light of contemporary ideological developments in Europe associated with new humanism and rationalism in the 18th and 19th centurires. The significance of that debate for both classical and New Testament studies is considered but new humanism displayed an envigorated enthusiasm for the classical tradition which changed the way scholars within classical and biblical scholarship worked. During these centuries a consolidation of practices took place which are still very much part of the way in which we still think of the past.
This project is now at its final research stage and a book under the above name is slated for publication at the Hið íslenska Bókmenntafélag in 2007.