Josef Forsling

Books

• Forsling, Josef, 2013. Composite Artistry in the Book of Numbers: A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions. Åbo: Åbo Akademis förlag.

Edited Books

• Forsling, Josef, Wenell, Fredrik, et al., 2019. ‘Man ska vara sig själv’: En bok om ungdomar, tro och delaktighet. Örebro: Marcus förlag.

Articles

• Forsling, Josef, 2024. Exploring the Wilderness in the Book of Numbers: Leaving the World of the Text to Interpret Its Literary Setting. In: Protokolle zur Bibel 33. 1. S. 50-65.

• Forsling, Josef, 2017. The Facts of Life before God and the Prophetic Peculiarity: Three Illness Narratives of the  Hebrew Bible. In: Diegesis 6. 2. S. 32-51.

• Forsling, Josef, 2013. The Incoherence of the Book of Numbers in Narrative Perspective. In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 78. S. 93-106.

Book Chapters

• Forsling, Josef, 2024. The Semantics of Storytelling in Biblical Hebrew. In: Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, 23–26 november 2024. Presentation inom sessionen "Biblical Lexicography"..

• Forsling, Josef, 2021. Människans synd och Guds svar: Om att läsa Urhistorien som problemformulering. In: Thomas Kazen och Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (ed.), Öppna vyer – lång sikt: Festskrift till Owe Kennerberg. Bromma: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm. S. 101-112.

• Forsling, Josef, 2018. Bland dokument, fragment och berättelser: Pentateuken som kanon och litterärt verk. In: Olsson, Birger och James Starr (eds.), Ordet är dig mycket nära: tolkningar av Gamla testamentet idag. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag. S. 84-94.

Conference Contributions

• Forsling, Josef, 2023. The Bitter Effect of the Water in the Sotah-Ritual (Num 5:11-31): Holiness and Impurity in Conflict. Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, TX, USA, 18–21 november 2023..

• Forsling, Josef, 2023. The Theology of Holiness and Purity in the Book of Numbers. Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, TX, USA, 18–21 november 2023..

• Forsling, Josef, 2023. Writing a Biblical Theology of Numbers. Symposium om teologisk tolkning,Linköpings universitet, 25-26 maj.

• Forsling, Josef, 2022. Generations, Credo, and Punishment in the book of Numbers: A Key to to Its Theology and  Composition in Persian Times. Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Denver 19-22 Nov..

• Forsling, Josef, 2021. The Book of Genesis and the Origins of Surveillance. Surveillance & Religion Network 4th Research Workshop, online, 9 april 2021.

• Forsling, Josef, 2021. Wilderness as Setting in the Book of Numbers. Exploring Space: Space-Related Methodical Approaches to Ancient Cultures and Texts, Freiburg och Bern (online), 17 juni 2021..

Reviews

• Forsling, Josef, 2023. Recension av Jaeyoung Jeon, From the Reed Sea to Kadesh: A Redactional and Socio- Historical Study of the Pentateuchal Wilderness Narrative (FAT 159. Tübingen: Mohr  Siebeck, 2022).. In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 88. 1. S. 246-249.

• Forsling, Josef, 2021. Review of Christian Frevel, Desert Transformation: Studies in the Book of Numbers  (FAT 137; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).. In: Review of Biblical Literature

• Forsling, Josef, 2020. Review of Briggs, Richard S. Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2018. XVI + 332 Pp. Hardcover $ 55, eBook (PDF and EPUB) $ 54.99.. In: International Journal of Systematic Theology 22. 3. S. 449-451.

• Forsling, Josef, 2019. Recension av Peter Halldorf, Alla himlens fåglar har flytt: Profeten Jeremia i sin egen tid och  i vår (Skellefteå: Artos, 2018). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 84. S. 226-230.

• Forsling, Josef, 2018. Recension av Jan C. Gertz mfl. red., The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (Tübingen: Mohr  Siebeck, 2016). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 83. S. 224-228.

• Forsling, Josef, 2017. Recension av Danna Nolan Fewell, red., Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative (Oxford  University Press, 2016). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 82. S. 245-249.

• Forsling, Josef, 2013. Recension av Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie och Nili Wazana, red., Law and  Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures (FAT 2:54,  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012). In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 78. S. 193-195.