Matthew Phillip Monger
Associate Professor
- Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
- Matthew.P.Monger@mf.no
- Office: 478C
- Phone number: 22590649
Responsible for the following subjects:
- Classical Syriac 1
Subject code: PHI2241 - Classical Syriac 2
Subject code: PHI2242 - Sacred Scriptures
Subject code: RL1014 - Methods and Tools for Biblical Interpretation
Subject code: TEOL2725 - Biblical Exegesis
Subject code: TEOL2735 - Introduction to Old Testament Studies (without Hebrew)
Subject code: TEOL2100
I am a philologist and Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF. My main research interests are the languages and texts of the Ancient Near East and Meditteranean, including Akkadian, Hebrew, Syriac/Aramaic, Ethiopic, Greek, and Latin 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.
Latest academic publications
- Monger, M. P. (2025). Unruly Books in the Qur’an, Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts,, s. 103 - 116. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, ISBN: 9780567715692
- 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). 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. (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. (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