Carl Johan Berglund

Books

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2020. Origen’s References to Heracleon: A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Origen’s References to Heracleon: A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John. Uppsala: Department of Theology.

Edited Books

• Berglund, Carl Johan, Crostini, Barbara, et al., 2022. Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, Gustafsson, Daniel, 2015. Ad fontes: Festskrift till Olof Andrén på 100-årsdagen. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma.

Articles

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2025. Paulus profetiska praktik och samhällets förväntningar i Första Korinthierbrevet 11–14. In: Hybrid 3. 1. S. 36-60.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective. In: Novum Testamentum 66. 2. S. 193-209.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation. In: Journal for the Study of the New Testament 46. 4. S. 464-488.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. The Ascetic Subculture of the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin. In: Vigiliae christianae (Print) 78. 1. S. 8-31.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. The Innovation of a Master Wonder-worker in the Character of Simon Peter. In: Approaching Religion 14. 1. S. 99-114.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Thekla från Ikonion: Fornkyrkans bortglömda förebild. In: Hybrid 2. S. 1-25.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Three Reasons to Die in Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom. In: Patristica Nordica Annuaria 38. S. 59-78.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Att möta vilddjuren i egna kläder: Kultur, status och värdighet på arenan i Karthago. In: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift 99. 3. S. 215-228.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Paul’s Rhetorical Efforts to Establish Good Will in First Thessalonians. In: Journal for the Study of the New Testament 44. 4. S. 539-560.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. References to Heracleon in Clement of Alexandria. In: Early Christianity (EC) 12. 2. S. 228-247.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Heracleon and the Seven Categories of Exegetical Opponents in Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John. In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 23. 2. S. 228-251.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Literary Criticism in Early Christianity: How Heracleon and Valentinus Use One Passage to Interpret Another. In: Journal of early Christian studies (Print) 27. 1. S. 27-53.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2017. Den utblottade är den mäktige. In: Sändaren 4.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2017. Origen’s Vacillating Stances Toward his "Valentinian" Colleague Heracleon. In: Vigiliae christianae (Print) 71. 5. S. 541-569.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2016. Understanding Origen: The Genre(s) of the Gospels in Light of Ancient Greek Philology and Modern Genre Theory. In: Scrinium 12. 1. S. 181-214.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2011. Heliga trefaldighets dag eller missionsdagen, den 19 juni. In: Tro och liv 2.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2011. Tre ledtrådar till Gamla testamentet. In: Sändaren

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2011. Trettonde söndagen efter trefaldighet, den 18 september. In: Tro och liv

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2010. Åttonde söndagen efter trefaldighet, den 25 juli. In: Tro och liv 3.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2010. Den helige Johannes döparens dag, den 27 juni. In: Tro och liv 2.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2010. Söndagen före domssöndagen, den 14 november. In: Tro och liv 4.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2010. Tredje söndagen i advent, den 12 december. In: Tro och liv 5.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2007. Bibelns samlevnadsideal. In: Frisinnad tidskrift

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2007. Bibelns samlevnadsideal: Går det att härleda äktenskapet ur Bibeln?. In: Tro och liv 3–4. S. 4-24.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2007. En framgångsrik missionsförsamling. In: Sändaren 16.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2007. Går det att härleda äktenskapet ur Bibeln?. In: Svensk kyrkotidning 103. 47. S. 592-596.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2004. Ett samspelt lag spelar bäst. In: Sändaren 18. S. 29.

Book Chapters

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. A Desirable Death: The Philosophical Context of Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom. In: Alfons Fürst (ed.), Origeniana Tertia Decima: Origen and Philosophy – A Complex Relation. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. S. 411-423.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Philip, Acts of. In: Constance M. Furey et al (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. The Jews in Clement of Alexandria. In: Matthijs den Dulk & Joshua Schwartz & Peter J. Tomson & Joseph Verheyden (eds.), Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: Mapping the Second Century. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 96-126.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Liturgies as Plot Devices in Apocryphal Acts. In: Carl Johan Berglund & Barbara Crostini & James A. Kelhoffer (eds.), Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 201-224.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. The Sychar Story as a Standard Conversion Narrative in Heracleon’s Hypomnēmata. In: Athanasios Despotis & Hermut Löhr (eds.), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions. Leiden: Brill. S. 427-449.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Discipleship Ideals in the Acts of Philip. In: Tobias Nicklas, Janet Spittler & Jan N. Bremmer (eds.), The Apostles Peter, Paul, John, Thomas and Philip with their Companions in Late Antiquity. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. S. 314-332.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Miracles, Determination, and Loyalty: The Concept of Conversion in the Acts of John. In: Robert Matthew Calhoun, James A. Kelhoffer & Clare K. Rothschild (eds.), Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock: Choice, Change, and Conversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 213-234.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. The Exegetical Methodology of Heracleon’s hypomnēmata. In: Joseph Verheyden & Tobias Nicklas (eds.), Early Christian Commentators of the New Testament: Essays on Their Aims, Methods and Strategies. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. S. 1-29.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Öppna vyer i 200-talets kristna akademi: Origenes attityd gentemot grekisk filosofi och kristna apokryfer. In: Thomas Kazen & Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (eds.), Öppna vyer – lång sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg. Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm. S. 175-186.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2020. The Genre(s) of the Gospels: Expectations from the Second Century. In: Robert Matthew Calhoun, David P. Moessner & Tobias Nicklas (eds.), Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels: Continuing the Debate on Gospel Genre(s). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 113-144.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Discerning Quotations from Heracleon in Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John. In: Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony et al (ed.), Origeniana Duodecima. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. S. 489-503.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. How ’Valentinian’ Was Heracleon’s Reading of the Healing of the Son of a Royal Official?. In: Mikael Tellbe & Tommy Wasserman (eds.), Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 219-239.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2018. Interpreting Readers: The Role of Greco-Roman Education in Early Inter­preta­tion of New Testament Writings. In: Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 204-247.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2017. Evaluating Quotations in Ancient Greek Literature: The Case of Heracleon’s hypomnēmata. In: Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas & Elisabeth Hernitscheck (eds.), Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence: The Search for Early Christian Groups and Movements. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 201-231.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2015. Origenes exegetiska metodik i Om bönen. In: Carl Johan Berglund & Daniel Gustafsson (eds.), Ad fontes: Festskrift till Olof Andrén på 100-årsdagen. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma.

Conference Contributions

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2025. Paul Within Greco-Roman Literature: The Methodological Debate in First Corinthians. “Paul Beyond Perspectives: Future Challenges in Pauline Studies” at ALT School of Theology, Örebro, March 6–7, 2025..

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Presumptions about Voluntary Poverty in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. The Challenge of Poverty: Theological Responses in Early Christian Literature and Global Christian History,Conference, 29-31 May, Åbo, Finland.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Recycled Gospel stories in the Acts of Philip. SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 23-26, 2024.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Reimagining Gospel Stories with Apostolic Protagonists: The Apostle Philip vs. the People of Nikatera. Reimagining Gospel Literature, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 6th of March in Berkeley.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Mimetic Mediators: How the Markan Disciples Facilitate Emulating Jesus. EABS Annual Meeting, 10-13 July in Syracuse, Italy.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Perpetua's Dignity on the Arena of Carthage. Second International Conference on Early Christian Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography: ”Imitationes Christi and Women Martyrs”, Universitat de València 5–7 September.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Peter’s Thaumaturgic Development from Observer to Performer. EABS Annual Meeting, 10-13 July in Syracuse, Italy.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. The Innovation of a Master Wonderworker in the Character of Simon Peter. ”Religion: Memory and Innovation” in Turku, Finland, 12-13 June 2023.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. The Sinful Nation: Isa 1:2–17 in Anti-Jewish Early Christian Interpretation. The Book of Isaiah between Judeo-Christian Borderlines, Åbo Akademi, 5 maj 2023.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Apocryphal Acts among Greek Biographies and Paradoxographies: A Question of Genre. SBL, Denver, November 19-22.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Att möta vilddjuren i egna kläder: Mänsklig värdighet på arenan i Karthago. De glada teologerna, teologhelg på Sigtunastiftelsen.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Between Biography and Paradoxography: Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. NAPS(The North American Patristics Society), Chicago, USA, 26-28 May.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Biographical Mimesis in the Gospel of Mark. Nordic New Testament Conference, Kristiansand 10-14 juni, 2022.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Elijah as an Archetype for the Apostles according to the Apocryphal Acts. Depictions of the Prophet Elijah in Jewish and Christian Contexts: Literary and Visual Sources, The Newman Seminar in Late Ancient and Byzantine Cultures, Zoom on the 8th of June 2022, at 13–18 pm.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Flesh-Eaters, Cave-Dwellers, and Eagles: Paradoxography in Acts Phil. 3. Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel: The Ancient Novel: Roads Less Travelled, Ghent, Belgium, 21-24 Sept. 2022.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. The Ascetic Subculture of the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin. SBL, Denver, Nov 19-22.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. The Deaths of the Apostles in the Apocryphal Acts. European Association of Biblical Studies, Toulouse 4-7 July 2022.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. The Philosopher’s Death in Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom. Origeniana Tertia Decima, WWU Münster 15 to 19 August 2022.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. The Selection of Paradoxographical Material in Apocryphal Acts. European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Toulouse 4-7 July 2022.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Between Biography and Paradoxography: Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. EABS(European Association of Biblical Studies), Wuppertal,Germany, August 2–5.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Den okända Pauluslärjungen Tekla – en förebild (inte bara) för kvinnor. De glada teologerna, teologhelg på Sigtunastiftelsen.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Discipleship Ideals from Mark to the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin. EABS, Wuppertal, August 2–5.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Liturgies as Plot Devices in Apocryphal Acts. Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity at the Newman Institute, October 21–22.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Thecla, the Ideal Christian: Discipleship Ideals from the Second Century to the Fourth. First International Conference on Early Christian Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography: “Literary Connections between the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the Saints’ Lives – Portraits of Holy Wo(men)” (Valencia 1–3 September, 2021).

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Discipleship Ideals in the Acts of Philip. The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Late Antiquity: Tradition and Innovation” in Regensburg, Germany 28-30 November 2019.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Discipleship Ideals in the Apocryphal Acts: A Radical Departure from the Gospels?. Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California 11/23/2019 to 11/26/2019.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. Rhetorical Capital and the Primary Purpose of First Thessalonians. Tyndale Fellowship Conference in Cambridge, UK.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2019. The Genre(s) of the Gospels: Three Views from the Second Century. Swedish–Norwegian Research School, Stavanger, Norway.

Reviews

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Review of Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). In: Journal of early Christian studies (Print) 32. 3. S. 467-469.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2024. Review of Margaret H. Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus, The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries 7 (London: T&T Clark, 2023). In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 75. 4. S. 771-773.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Review of Alexander Kocar, Heavenly Stories: Tiered Salvation in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). In: Journal of early Christian studies (Print) 1. S. 109-110.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2023. Review of Nathan L. Shedd, A Dangerous Parting: The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory (Baylor, 2021). In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74. 2. S. 401-402.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Recension av Ezra JaeKyung Cho, The Rhetorical Approach to 1 Thessalonians: In Light of Ancient Funeral Oration (Eugene: Pickwick, 2020). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 87. S. 352-356.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Recension av Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020). In: Patristica Nordica Annuaria 37. S. 99-102.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Recension av Jeffrey M. Tripp, Direct Internal Quotation in the Gospel of John, WUNT II 493 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 87. S. 416-419.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2021. Recension av Review of David Satran, In the Image of Origen: Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 58 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok S. 204-207.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2020. Review of Matthew D. C. Larsen, Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 85. 1. S. 259-262.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2018. Review of John R. L. Moxon, Peter’s Halakhic Nightmare: The “Animal” Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. WUNT II/432. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 83. S. 278-281.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2017. Review of Christoph Markschies, Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire: Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology.. In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 82. S. 282-285.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2016. Review of Ken Parry (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion Series. (Chichester: Wiley 2015). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 81. S. 264-265.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2015. Review of Lorne R. Zelyck, John among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-Canonical Gospels. WUNT II 347. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 80. S. 269-271.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2015. Review of Peter W. Martens, Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life. Oxford Early Christian Studies. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 80. S. 245-247.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2014. Review of vanThanh Nguyen, Peter and Cornelius: A Story of Conversion and Mission. ASM Monograph Series 15. (Eugene: Pickwick 2012). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 79. S. 190-191.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2013. Recension av Patricia Walthers, The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence. SNTSMS 145. (Cambridge: Univ. 2010). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 78. S. 272-274.

Other

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2022. Nationssymbolerna bär vittne om vilka vi varit. S. 20.

• Berglund, Carl Johan, 2018. Människovärdet avskaffar man inte hur som helst. S. 18-19.