Rikard Roitto

Books

• Roitto, Rikard, 2025. Forma din predikan med AI: En liten guide till att använda AI-chattar i det homiletiska hantverket. Bromma: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm.

• Enberg, Anna, Roitto, Rikard, 2025. Kristus - allt i alla: Efesierbrevet, Kolosserbrevet och Filemonbrevet. Libris förlag.

• Kazen, Thomas, Roitto, Rikard, 2024. Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World: A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: Supplement 2: Group Dynamics. Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: Supplement 3: Forgiveness. Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2021. Behaving as a Christ-believer: a cognitive perspective on identity and behavior norms in Ephesians. Stockholm: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2009. Behaving as a Christ‐Believer: A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians. Linköping: Linköpings universitet.

Edited Books

• Roitto, Rikard, Wigorts Yngvesson, Susanne, 2021. Teknoteologi: AI och människans livsvillkor. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.

• Roitto, Rikard, Uro, Risto, et al., 2018. Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Articles

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. The Johannine Information War: A Social Network Analysis of the Information Flow Between Johannine Assemblies as Witnessed by 1-3 John. In: Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi 39. 1. S. 47-62.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Enduring Shame as Costly Signalling: The Case of Public Confession of Sin According to Tertullian. In: Journal of Cognitive Historiography 4. 1. S. 60-78.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2016. Dangerous but contagious altruism: recruitment of group members and reform of cooperation style through altruism in two modified versions of Hammond and Axelrod’s simulation of ethnocentric cooperation. In: Religion, Brain & Behavior 6. 2. S. 154-168.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2015. The polyvalence of α͗φίημι and the two cognitive frames of forgiveness in the synoptic gospels. In: Novum Testamentum 57. 2. S. 136-158.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2014. Reintegrative Shaming and a Prayer Ritual of Reintegration in Matthew 18:15-20. In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 79. S. 95-123.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2013. Is Covenantal Nomism only Jewish?. In: Henoch 35. 1. S. 119-134.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2012. Practices of confession, intercession, and forgiveness in 1 John 1.9; 5.16. In: New Testament Studies 58. 2. S. 235-253.

Book Chapters

• Mannerfelt, Frida, Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Mellan rit och reklam del 1: Berättelsen om två församlingars utveckling. In: Sara Garpe & Jonas Ideström (eds.), Kyrka i digitala rum: Ett aktionsforskningsprojekt om församlingsliv online i Svenska kyrkan. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan. S. 47-59.

• Mannerfelt, Frida, Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Mellan rit och reklam del 2: Interaktion, synkronicitet och integritet i förinspelade digitalt förmedlade andakter. In: Sara Garpe & Jonas Ideström (eds.), Kyrka i digitala rum: Ett aktionsforskningsprojekt om församlingsliv online i Svenska kyrkan. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan. S. 61-79.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Using Behavioural Sciences to Understand Early Christian Experiences of Conversion. In: George Boys-Stones & George H. van Kooten (eds.), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. S. 43-58.

• Roitto, Rikard, Wigorts Yngvesson, Susanne, 2021. Inledning: En teknoteologisk kartbild. In: Rikard Roitto & Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (eds.), Teknoteologi: AI och människans livsvillkor. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. S. 9-18.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2021. Rituella teknologier: Materiella och virtuella vägar till tillbedjan. In: Rikard Roitto & Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (eds.), Teknoteologi: AI och människans villkor. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. S. 145-168.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2020. 1 John. In: Brian Tucker & Aaron Keucker (eds.), T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary to the New Testament. London: T&T Clark. S. 555-566.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2020. 2 John. In: Brian Tucker & Aaron Keucker (eds.), T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary to the New Testament. London: T&T Clark. S. 567-570.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2020. 3 John. In: Brian Tucker & Aaron Keucker (eds.), T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary to the New Testament. London: T&T Clark. S. 571-573.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. De första kristnas riter: Nya ritvetenskapliga perspektiv på första århundradets gudstjänst och dop. In: Stephan Borgehammar, Ninna Edgardh, Sune Fahlgren, Stina Fallberg Sundmark ; artikelförfattare: Gabriel Bar-Sawme [och sex andra] (eds.), Gudstjänstens mening. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag. S. 115-141.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. Forgiveness of the Sinless: A Classic Contradiction in 1 John in the Light of Contemporary Forgiveness Research. In: R. Nikolsky, F. Tappenden & I. Czachesz (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis: Interpreting Minds. London: Bloomsbury Academic. S. 149-161.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. Pastorn som bibeltolkare: Om konsten att predika Bibeln kreativt och med ansvar. In: Sune Fahlgren (ed.), Uppdrag pastor: teologi och praktik. Karlstad: Votum. S. 74-89.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. The Johannine Information War: A Social Network Analysis of the Information Flow between Johannine Assemblies as Witnessed by 1-3 John. In: Kok, Jacobus, Martin Webber & Jermo van Nes (eds.), Drawing and Transcending Boundaries in the New Testament and Early Christianity. Berlin: LIT Verlag. S. 69-84.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Rituals of Reintegration. In: R. Uro, R. DeMaris, J. Day & R. Roitto (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual. Oxford: Oxford University Press. S. 426-443.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2017. Paul’s Theological Language of Salvation as Social and Embodied Cognition. In: A. Despotis (ed.), Participation, Justification and Conversion: Eastern Orthodox Interpretation of Paul and the Debate between Old and New Perspectives on Paul. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 301-330.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2016. Forgiveness, Ritual and Social Identity in Matthew: Obliging Forgiveness. In: J. Jokiranta, S. Byrskog & R. Hakola (eds.), Social Memory and Social Identity in the Study of Early Judaism and Early Christianity. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. S. 187-210.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2015. Bibeln och nationalismen. In: Kjell-Åke Nordquist (ed.), Sverige, Sverige Fosterland – teologi, politik och svenska väljare. Studieförbundet Bilda. S. 15-26.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2013. Identity in First John: Sinless Sinners who Remain in Him. In: B. Tucker & C. Baker (eds.), The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity and the New Testament. London: T&T Clark. S. 493-510.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2013. Vägledande ord om bibelbruk och bibelsyn. In: Ulla-Marie Gunner & Per Westblom (eds.), Arvet och en gemensam framtid. Stockholm: Verbum Forlag. S. 97-126.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2008. Act as a Christ-believer, as a household member or as both?: a cognitive perspective on the relationship between the social identity in Christ and household identities in Pauline and deutero-Pauline texts. In: Bengt Holmberg & Mikael Winninge (eds.), Identity formation in the New Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 141-161.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2008. Behaving like a Christ-believer: a cognitive perspective on identity and behavior norms in the early Christ-movement. In: Bengt Holmberg (ed.), Exploring early Christian identity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. S. 93-114.

Conference Contributions

• Berglund, Carl Johan, Roitto, Rikard, 2025. Creating a Vector Database from Perseus Texts to Facilitate Semantic/Thematic Searches. EABS/ISBL in Uppsala,Sweden, June 23–27, 2025..

• Roitto, Rikard, 2025. Cultural and Innate Aspects of Morality in the First Century. EABS/SBL, Uppsala, Sverige, 23-27 juni 2025.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2024. How Useful are AI-chats for NT Greek?. SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, 23-26 November 2024.

• Roitto, Rikard, Mannerfelt, Frida, 2024. Using AI-Chats for Biblical Text Comprehension and Creativity in Sermon Preparations. SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, 23-26 November 2024.

• Kazen, Thomas, Roitto, Rikard, 2023. Roman Clemency versus Jewish(-Christian) Forgiveness: A Comparative Analysis. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 17-21 november 2023.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. The Parable in the Preacher’s Mind: What Blending Theory Teaches Us About What Education a Preacher Needs. Konferensen "Parables and their Reception" (PR, 26th-28th of September, 2022 at the Oslo university.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. Presentation of the volume Oxford Handbook on Early Christian Rituals in a Review panel. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov 2019.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. Response to three papers on Cognitive Linguistics, Blending, and the Parables of Jesus. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov 2019.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2019. Ritualized Moral Repair in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Ritual, Emotion and Identity in Antiquity, Rostock, June 2019.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Cognitive Perspectives on Conversion to First Century Christianity. Conversion in Antiquity, Bonn, Sept 2018.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Conceptualizations of Moral Wrongdoing in Antiquity. Nordic New Testament Conference, Reykjavik, June 2018.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Keynote: Idealized Identity, Internal Conflict, and Fuzzy Social Boundaries in the Network of Johannine Communities: 1-3 John Among Voluntary Associations. New Testament Society of Southern Africa, Potchefstroom, Apr 3-6 2018.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2018. Perception of Risk in the Sermon on the Mount. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov 2018.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2017. Confession of Sins and Penance as Costly Signaling in Early Christianity. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, Nov 2017.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2017. The Embodied Experience of the Early Christian Symposium and Paul's Language of Salvation and Justification. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, Nov 2017.

Reviews

• Roitto, Rikard, 2013. Review of Pyysiäinen, Ilkka‏. Religion, economy, and cooperation.. In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 1. 2. S. 244-245.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2013. Review of Trebilco, Paul. Self-designations and group identity in the New Testament.. In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 78. S. 267-269.

Other

• Roitto, Rikard, 2022. Dedications as Aggressions.

• Roitto, Rikard, 2011. Behaving as a Christ-Believer: A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians. Wiona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.