Matthew Phillip Monger
Associate Professor
- Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
- Matthew.P.Monger@mf.no
- Office: 478C
- Phone number: 22590649
I am the Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF. My main research interests are the languages and texts of the Ancient Near East, including Akkadian, Hebrew, Syriac/Aramaic, Ethiopic, and Arabic, and the intersections of texts in these languages. Theoretically and methodologically, I am interested in the transmission and reception of texts and traditions and the methods and theories that guide scholars in their research on texts.
I am currently working on a book that investigates the names given to the wives of the pre-Abrahamic patriarchs in Antiquity and traces their reception history throughout a wide range of texts and manuscripts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
I am also working on a project to publish collections of biblical riddles in the Syriac language found in manuscripts from the 9th–20th century.
I am also part of the Lying Pen of Scribes (https://lyingpen.uia.no/) project at the University of Agder, where I am working on describing the material properties of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Latest academic publications
- Monger, M. P. (2024). The Book of the Daughters of Adam in the Gelasian Decree, Journal of Biblical Literature, s. 545 - 561. Journal of Biblical Literature, ISSN: 0021-9231
- Monger, M. P. (2023). Material Philology and Jubilees Manuscripts from Qumran: Exploring Questions of Theory and Method, Judaïsme Ancien. Revue internationale d’histoire et de philologie, s. 41 - 74. Judaïsme Ancien. Revue internationale d’histoire et de philologie, ISSN: 2294-9321
- Monger, M. P. (2023). Self-Knowledge and the Hidden Kingdom: The Delphic Maxim in the Manuscripts of Gos. Thom. 3, Know Yourself: Interpretations and Echoes of the Delphic Maxim in Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Philosophy,, s. 319 - 335. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter), ISBN: 9783111083544
- Monger, M. P. (2023). A Syriac List of the Names of the Wives of the Patriarchs in BL Add 14620, Synopses and Lists : Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World,, s. 141 - 171. Open Book Publishers, ISBN: 9781805111481
- Monger, M. P. (2022). 4Q216 and the Jubilees Creation Account: A Material Philological Analysis , The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts : A Millennium,, s. 75 - 109. Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN: 978-90-04-49933-1
- Lied, L. I. & Monger, M. P. (2019). 4 Ezra (= 2 Esdras 3-14). Syriac, Deuterocanonical Scriptures,, s. 481 - 488. Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN: 9789004355613
- Monger, M. P. (2018). 4Q216 - A New Material Analysis, Semitica, s. 308 - 333. Semitica, ISSN: 0373-630X
- Lied, L. I. & Monger, M. P. (2018). Look to the East : New and Forgotten Sources of 4 Ezra, The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone,, s. 639 - 652. ISBN: 978-90-04-35588-0
- Monger, M. P. (2018). The many forms of Jubilees: A reassessment of the manuscript evidence from Qumran and the lines of transmission of the parts and whole of Jubilees, Revue de Qumran, s. 191 - 211. Revue de Qumran, ISSN: 0035-1725
- Monger, M. P. (2017). The Development of Jubilees 1 in the Late Second Temple Period, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, s. 83 - 112. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, ISSN: 0951-8207
- Monger, M. P. (2016). The Transmission of Jubilees: Reevaluating the Textual Basis, New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christianity : From Enoch to Montreal and Back,, s. 153 - 171. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, ISBN: 9780567666178
- Monger, M. P. (2014). 4Q216 and the State of Jubilees at Qumran, Revue de Qumran, s. 595 - 612. Revue de Qumran, ISSN: 0035-1725
Education and practice
2018
Ph.D. "4Q216: Rethinking Jubilees in the First Century BCE." MF
2012
University of Oslo: MA in Semitic Philology
2009
University of Oslo: BA in Linguistics
2008
MF Norwegian School of Theology: Master of Theology
2006
MF Norwegian School of Theology: Bachelor of Theology