Martin Friis

CV

Employment

• 2021 (autumn): Part-time Lecturer, New Testament
• 2020 (autumn): Part-time Lecturer, New Testament
• 2020 (spring): Part-time Lecturer, Old Testament and New Testament
• 2019 (autumn): Part-time Lecturer, New Testament
• 2019 (spring): Postdoc (temporary), Systematic Theology & Ecumenical Theology
• 2018 (autumn): Part-time Lecturer, New Testament and Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
• 2017 (autumn): Assistant Professor (temporary), Old Testament and New Testament
• 2016 (spring) - 2017 (spring): Part-time Lecturer, Old Testament
• 2015 (spring): Part-time Lecturer, New Testament
• 2010 (spring): Student help at the Danish Bible Society (in cooperation with Grundtvig Centeret, Aarhus University and Vartov, Copenhagen) on a project concerning N.F.S. Grundtvig's use of the Bible in his psalm authorship

Education
2011 (Oct)-2015 (April): PhD student at The Department of Biblical Exegesis, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
2012 (Oct.-Dec.): Postgraduate Visiting Student, Oriel College, University of Oxford
2011 (June): Theological College of Education, Copenhagen
2011 (Jan.): Cand. theol. from The Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University
2008 (July): Bac. theol. from The Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University
2004 (June): High-school student from Næstved Gymnasium & HF

Academic distinction
Prize dissertation: "Abraham, yet again... An account of the term "Rewritten Bible" taking the retelling of the Abraham narrative in Genesis in The Genesis Apocryphon, The Book of Jubilees and The Jewish Antiquities as the point of departure". Gold medal awarded in 2010 at the annual commemoration of the founding of the university.

Current research

My teaching portfolio includes:

• In New Testament Exegesis: Introductory course to the New Testament; Galatians; Romans; First Timothy; the Gospel of Mark, and the Gospel of John.
• In Old Testament Exegesis: Selected parts of Genesis alongside various chapters in the Pentateuch, in the historical books, in the prophets, in wisdom literature and in several psalms.
• In Systematic Theology & Ecumenical Theology: creeds of the early church, Luther, Confessio Augustana etc.
• In Ethics and Philosophy of Religion: Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard etc.
• In the writings of Flavius Josephus: Josephus' presentation of the heroes and villains of the Old Testament.

Primary fields of research

• Pauline Christology and anthropology.
• Moses as the living image of God. Mimcetic theology in the Book of Exodus.
• Josephus' rendition of the Scriptures in the first eleven books of The Jewish Antiquities and his literary indebtedness to the ancient Greco-Roman historiographical tradition.
• Masculine and heroic ideals in the New Testament (the gospels and the Book of Acts in particular) in comparison with those in the works of contemporary authors including Josephus, Plutarch and Tacitus.