Petri Kasari (Helsinki University)

Submitted:          Thu, 9 Oct 1997 16:54:28 EET DST

Petri Kasari
Master of Theology (Biblical studies, especially OT), 
Baccalaureus of arts (Semitic philology and assyrology), (soon/in year 
or two to be DT and MA)
Department of Biblical Studies
Helsinki University

Mailing Address: 
Kaemnerintie 7 A 4
FIN-00750 Helsinki
Finland

Phones:  +358-9-347 25 01 (home)
FAX:     +358-9-191 22106
Email:   petri.kasari@helsinki.fi

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK


Recently I have worked in the research project "Israelite Historiography" 

I am working on my doctoral thesis, which deals with 2 Sam 7 and related 
texts (1 Sm 15, 2 Sm, 2 Sm 11-12, 23, 1 Kings 1-2. So I am mostly 
working on Syro-Palestine and its languages. My backround is the 
Goettingen school (leading figures are Würthwein, Dietrich, Veijola) 
and so I am dealing in my work the deuteronomists and the 
deuteronomistic historiography.

My masters thesis on Semitic philology deals with reconstructing early 
Hebrew and its application on early biblical Hebrew (Ps 68) and the 
metrics of biblical poetry.

The question of historical Jesus and Assyrology are also topics, that 
I am interested in  and which I have studied a bit.