Project completed in 2004: PhD dissertation, and 2007: Publishing

  • Project title: "A people tall and smooth-skinned: the rhetoric of Isaiah 18".
  • Responsible: Marta Høyland Lavik (PhD student), Knut Holter (Promoter).
  • Funding: Norwegian Research Council and School of Mission and Theology.
  • Project description: The project is a literary analysis of the rhetoric of Isaiah 18, probably the most detailed Old Testament text about the African people of Cush. The dissertation was defended for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Oslo in November 2004.