Tommy Wasserman

2020-08-01- ALT School of Theology (Sweden): Professor of New Testament
2018-08-01- Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole (Norway): Professor of Biblical Studies (50%)
2014-08-01- Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole (Norway): Professor II of Biblical Studies (20%)
2007-03-01- Örebro School of Theology (Sweden): Academic Dean and Lecturer of New Testament Exegesis
2002-08-01- Örebro School of Theology (Sweden): Part-time teacher in New Testament Exegesis

2010 Centre for Theology and Religious studies, Lund University. Docent in New Testament exegesis. Award date: 22/09/2010.

2002–2007 Lund University, Centre for Theology and Religious studies. PhD in New Testament exegesis. Award date: 03/06/2007.

2002 Uppsala University, Theological Faculty. Master of Theology. Award date: 22/02/2002.

2001-2002 Örebro University. English Language and Literature, First cycle, C-level (30 ECTS)

1997–2001 Örebro School of Theology. Master of Divinity. Award date: 07/06/2001.

1994–2000 Växjö University. English Language and Literature, First cycle, A+B level (60 ECTS)

A. Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference volumes/monographs

1. “The Patmos Family of New Testament MSS and Its Allies in the Pericope of the Adulteress and Beyond,” in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism [http://purl.org/TC] 7 (2002): pars. 1-59.
2. “Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex.” New Testament Studies 51 (2005): 137-54. 
3. “Theologische Linien im Codex Bodmer Miscellani?” (co-authored with Tobias Nicklas). Pages 161-188 in New Testament Manuscripts and Their World. Edited by Thomas. J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
4. “𝔓⁷⁸ (P. Oxy. XXXIV 2684)—The Epistle of Jude on an Amulet?” Pages 137-160 in New Testament Manuscripts and Their World. Edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
5. “Some Bibliographic Notes on Greek New Testament Manuscripts.” Novum Testamentum 49 (2007): 291-295. 
6. “Fönster mot handskriftsvärlden.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalstidskrift 83/2 (2007): 75-84. 
7. “Theological Creativity and Scribal Solutions in Jude.” Pages 75-84 in Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies. Edited by H.A.G. Houghton and D.C. Parker. Texts and Studies (series three). Gorgias Press, Piscataway NJ, 2008.
8. “Proposal for a New Rating System in Greek New Testament Editions.” The Bible Translator (Technical Papers) 60/3 (2009): 140-57.
9. “Textkritik – en ny dimension av texttolkning.” Pages 167–180 in Att tolka Bibeln och Koranen. Konflikt och förhandling. Edited by Hanna Stenström. Stockholm: Studentlitteratur, 2009.
10. “Earth Accuses Earth: Tracing What Jesus Wrote on the Ground.” Co-written with Jennifer Wright Knust. Harvard Theological Review, 103 (2010): 407-46.
11. “Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Sweden with an Excursus on the Jerusalem Colophon.” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 75 (2010): 77-108.
12. “A Comparative Textual Analysis of 𝔓⁴ and 𝔓⁶⁴+𝔓⁶⁷.” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 15 (2010): 1-27.
13. “The ‘Son of God’ Was in the Beginning (Mk 1:1).” Journal of Theological Studies 62.1 (2011): 20-50.
14. “The Implications of Textual Criticism for Understanding the ’Original Text’.” Pages 77-96 in Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in their First-Century Settings. Edited by E.-M. Becker and A. Runesson. WUNT 271. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
15. “The Early Text of Matthew.” Pages 83-107 in The Early Text of the New Testament. Edited by Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
16. “Misquoting Manuscripts? – The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture Revisited.” Pages 325-50 in The Making of Christianity: Conflicts, Contacts, and Constructions. Edited by Magnus Zetterholm and Samuel Byrskog. ConBNTS 47. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012.
17. “Criteria for Evaluating Readings in New Testament Textual Criticism.” Pages 579-612 in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research. Essays on the Status Questionis. Edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. 2d ed. NTTSD 42. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013.
18. “Lectio Vehementior Potior: Scribal Violence on Violent Texts?” Pages 260-278 in Encountering Violence in the Bible. Edited by Markus Zehnder and Hallvard Hagelia. Bible in the Modern World 55. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.
19. “The Biblical Odes and the Text of the Christian Bible: A Reconsideration of the Impact of Liturgical Singing on the Transmission of the Gospel of Luke.” Co-written with Jennifer Wright Knust. Journal of Biblical Literature 133.2 (2014): 341–65.
20. “𝔓⁴⁵ and Codex W in Mark.” Pages 130-58 in Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism. Edited by Chris Keith and Dieter Roth. LNTS 528. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2014.
21. “The Coherence Based Genealogical Method as a Tool for Explaining Textual Changes in the Greek New Testament.” Novum Testamentum 57.2 (2015): 206-218.
22. “Textkritisk kommentar till Svenska Bibelsällskapets provöversättning av Lukas evangelium.” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 80 (2015): 143-168.
23. “A Short Textual Commentary on Galatians.” Pages 347-373 in Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity. Essays in Honour of Michael W. Holmes. Edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr. and Paul Foster. NTTSD 50. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015.
24. “Historical and Philological Correlations and the CBGM as Applied to Mark 1:1.” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 20 (2015): 1-11.
25. The Strange Case of the Missing Adulteress.” Pages 33-64 in The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research. Edited by D. A. Black and Jacob C. Cerone. LNTS 551. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.
26. “Variants of Evil: The Disassociation of Jesus from Evil in the Textual Tradition of the New Testament.” Pages 69-86 in Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity: Cultural, Historical and Textual Approaches. Edited by Chris Keith and Loren Stuckenbruck. WUNT II.417. Mohr-Siebeck, 2016.
27. “A Short Textual Commentary on the Lucan Travel Narrative (Luke 9:51-19:46).” Pages 90-115 in Getting into the Text: New Testament Essays in Honor of David Alan Black. Edited by Daniel L. Akin and Thomas W. Hudgins. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2017.
28. “Spåren av vad Jesus skrev på jorden: Människosyn i ljuset av berättelsen om Jesus och äktenskapsbryterskan (Joh 7:53-8:11).” Pages 33-49 in Hva er nå et menneske? Edited by Anne Haugland Balsnes. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2017.
29. “Was There an Alexandrian Recension of the Living Text of the Gospels?” Pages 1–22 in Liturgy and the Living Text of the New Testament. Edited by H. A. G. Houghton, Texts and Studies 3.16. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018.
30. “Bringing Sisters Back Together (Luke 10:41-42),” Journal of Biblical Literature 137, no. 2 (2018): 439–61.
31. “Methods of Evaluating Textual Relationships: From Bengel to the CBGM and beyond.” Pages 333–61 in The Future of Textual Scholarship on the New Testament. Edited by Garrick V. Allen. WUNT I.417. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. 
32. “The Wondrous Gospel of John: Jesus’s Miraculous Deeds in Late Ancient Editorial and Scholarly Practice.” Pages 165–96 in Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Edited by Mikael Tellbe and Tommy Wasserman. WUNT II.511. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. 
33. “Scribal Alterations and the Reception of Jesus in Early Manuscripts of the Gospels.” Pages 305–27 in The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries. Vol.2. Edited by Jens Schröter and Christine Jacobi. Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019.
34. “Women as Testifying Witnesses in Early Judaism: A Preliminary Survey.” Pages 135–162 in God and Humans: A Festschrift for Lennart Boström on his 67th Birthday. Edited by David Willgren. Hebrew Bible Monographs 85. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2019.
35. “Textual Criticism and the Editio Critica Maior of James” (co-written with Peter Gurry). Pages 209–29 in Reading the Epistle of James: A Resource for Students. Edited by Eric F. Mason and Darian R. Lockett. RBS 94. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019.
36. “New Traces of an Old Text: The Corrections of Gregory-Aland 424 in Acts 1–14.” Pages 51–68 in The New Testament in Antiquity and Byzantium: Traditional and Digital Approaches to its Texts and Editing A Festschrift for Klaus Wachtel. Edited by H.A.G. Houghton, David C. Parker and Holger Strutwolf. ANTF 52. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019.
37. “‘The Cable Guy:’ Constantine Simonides and Codex Mayerianus.” Co-authored with Malcolm Choat. Bulletin of American Society of Papyrology 57 (2020): 177–218.
38. “The Pericope of the Adulteress (John 7:53–8:11): A New Chapter in Its Textual Transmission” (co-written with Jennifer Knust). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 85 (2020): 49–82.
39. “En introduktion till nytestamentlig textkritik.” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 85 (2020): 92–124.
40. “The Text of the Pericope Adulterae in Early Latin Writers.” Pages 263–86 in At One Remove: The Text of the New Testament in Early Translations and Quotations. Papers from the Eleventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Edited by Peter Montoro and H. A. G. Houghton. Text and Studies 3. Gorgias Press, Piscataway NJ, 2020.
41. “In Honor of Eldon Jay Epp: Nonagenarian and Doyen of New Testament Textual Criticism. “ Co-authored with Jennifer Knust. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 25 (2020): 85–88.
42. “Codex Bezae as Repository.” Pages 142–174 in Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles E. Hill. Edited by Gregory R. Lanier and J. Nicholas Reid. Co-authored with Jennifer Knust. TENTS 15. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
43. “Reconstructing the New Testament Texts." Pages 202–210 in Jesus, the New Testament and Christian Origins: Perspectives, Methods, Meanings. Edited by Dieter Mitternacht and Anders Runesson. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021.
44. “A New Leaf of Constantine Theologites the Reader’s Lectionary in Uppsala University Library (Fragm. ms. graec. 1 = Greg.-Aland L1663),” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 86 (2021): 147–65.
45. “New Traces of an Old Text: The Corrections of Gregory-Aland 424 in the Book of Acts.” Pages 198–216 in Ancient Texts, Papyri, and Manuscripts: Studies in Honor of James R. Royse. Edited by Alan Taylor Farnes, Scott D. Mackie and David T. Runia. NTTSD 64. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
46. “The Woman at the Well as a Witness in John Revisited,” Journal of Theological Studies 73.2 (2022). Advance access: https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flac082
47. “Liturgical Influences on the Text of the New Testament.” Pages 49–79 in Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Anders Ekenberg’s 75th Birthday. Edited by James Kelhoffer, Barbara Crostini and Carl-Johan Berglund. VCSup. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
48. “The Text and Paratext of Family 1 in Mark 16,” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 8.2 (2022): 145–63.
49. “Scribal Harmonization of Matthew’s Fulfillment Citations in Codices Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, and Sinaiticus” (co-authored with Andreas Märs), Novum Testamentum 65 (2023): 143–174.
50. “Beyond Palaeography: Text, Paratext and Dating of Early Christian Papyri.” Pages 151–162 in The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety:Literature, Papyrology, Ethics. Edited by Garrick V. Allen, Usama Gad, Kelsie Rodenbiker, Anthony Royle and Jill Unkel. Manuscripta Biblica 10. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. Open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110781304/html?lang=en
51. “Subscriptions to 1 Timothy” (co-authored with Linnéa Thorp). Pages 172–201 in Paratextual Features of New Testament Papyrology and Early Christian Manuscripts. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Chris Stevens. TENTS. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023.
52. “Subscriptions to 2 Timothy” (co-authored with Conrad T. Elmelund). Pages 202–226 in Paratextual Features of New Testament Papyrology and Early Christian Manuscripts. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Chris Stevens. TENTS. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023.
53. “Manuscripts and the Making of the New Testament.” In Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity. Edited by Bruce W. Longenecker and David E. Wilhite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

In Press (submitted and accepted):

1. “‘Know Your Text’: The Integrity and Interpretation of Alcibiades m. 133c8-17.” In Know Yourself: Interpretations and Echoes of the Delphic Maxim in Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Philosophy. Edited by Ole Jakob Filtvedt and Jens Schröter. BZNW 260. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2023.
2. “The Subscriptions to Mark’s Gospel and Their History of Reception” (co-authored with Conrad T. Elmelund) accepted by New Testament Studies (Cambridge University Press) on 24 February 2023.
3. “Marginalised Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament in Vienna.” Forthcoming in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 28 (2023).
4. “’Traces of Singing’: The Continuity between Greek Jewish and Christian Psalms Manuscripts” (co-authored with Andreas Märs). Pages XXX in Song, Prayer, Scripture: Aspects of the Use of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible to the 21st Century. Edited by David Davage and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. LHBOTS. T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2024.
5. “New Light on the Marginalia of Family 1 in John” (co-authored with Conrad Thorup Elmelund). De Gruyter, 2024.
6. “Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Popular Media: Constantine Simonides, Greek NT Colophons; Luigi Moccia, Gospel of Josephus; Secret Gospel of Mark.” In Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies: Gnostic Literature. Edited by Christian Askeland. ALNTS 8. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2024.

1. Finns det en evangelikal exegetik?—rapport från en samtalsdag på Örebro Teologiska Högskola. Edited by Tommy Wasserman. Örebro: Örebro Theological Seminary, 2004.
2. Studies in Isaiah: History, Theology and Reception. Edited by Tommy Wasserman, Greger Andersson & David Willgren. LHBOTS 654. T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2017.
3. Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Edited by Tommy Wasserman and Mikael Tellbe. WUNT II.511 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
4. Oxford Handbook on Textual Criticism of the Bible. Edited by Sidney White Crawford and Tommy Wasserman. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

D. Review articles and reviews

1. Review of The Text of the Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis, Caroll D. Osburn, Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2004. Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2005).
2. Review of James and Jude, William F. Brosend, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2005).
3. Review of The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove. Edited by Larry Hurtado. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism [http://purl.org/TC] 13 (2008).
4. Review article of A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd ed. Bruce M. Metzger. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994. (Accordance digital edition). Canadian Evangelical Review 95 (2009): 95-107.
5. Review of 2 Peter and Jude (Two Horizons New Testament Commentary). Ruth Anne Reese. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71 (2009): 418-19.
6. Review of Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri. James R. Royse. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Vol. 36. Leiden och Boston: Brill, 2008. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 75 (2010): 229-30.
7. Review of The Story of the Bodmer Papyri, James M. Robinson, Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2011. Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2014).
8. Review of Old Testament Quotations in Hebrews: Studies in their Textual and Contextual Background, Georg A. Walser, WUNT II 356. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 80 (2015): 262-264.
9. Review of Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of J. Keith Elliott. Edited by Peter Doble and Jeffrey Kloha. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Vol. 47. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. Novum Testamentum 58.2 (2016): 219-226.
10. Review of Bengt Alexandersson, Problems in the New Testament: Old Manuscripts and Papyri, the New Genealogical Method (CBGM) and the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) (Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis. Humaniora 48). Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg 2014. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalstidskrift. in STK 92 (2016).
11. Review of Alan Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practise. WUNT 362; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 84 (2019).
12. Review of Lonnie D. Bell, The Early Textual Transmission of John. NTTSD 54. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Journal of Theological Studies 73.1 (2022): 315–318.

E. Popular books and articles

1. Med blicken fäst på Jesus. Nya Testamentets Budskap. Örebro: Libris 2010.
2. “Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance,” in Marginalia Review of Books (Los Angeles Review of Books channel). July 6, 2018. ISSN 2325-8357. Online: https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/simonides-new-testament-papyri-their-production-and-purported-provenance/
3. “Alexandrian Text” in the “Bible Odyssey” (Society of Biblical Literature), n.p. [cited 27 Nov 2018]. Online: https://www.bibleodyssey.org:443/en/places/related-articles/alexandrian-text
4. “Manuscripts of the Lord’s Prayer” in the “Bible Odyssey” (Society of Biblical Literature), n.p. [cited 27 Nov 2018]. Online: https://www.bibleodyssey.org:443/en/passages/related-articles/manuscripts-of-the-lords-prayer
5. “The Woman Caught in Adultery.” (Text and Canon Institute), n.p.
   Online: https://textandcanon.org/the-woman-caught-in-adultery

• Ansgar Teologiske Högskole, Kristiansand, 2007: “Christology and Textual Transmission” (guest lecture)
• Århus University, 2008, Mark and Matthew. Text and Contexts (conference): “Implications of Textual Criticism for Understanding the ‘Original Text.’”
• SNTS 63rd General Meeting, Lund, 2008: “Significant NT manuscripts in Sweden with Special Reference to Greg.-Aland 1049.”
• University of Edinburgh, New Testament Seminar, 2009: “The ‘Original’ Text of the New Testament: Westcott and Hort Revisited.”
• University of Edinburgh, (College of Humanities & Social Science), Northern Scholars Lecture 2009: “Terra terram accusat: Tracing What Jesus Wrote on the Ground.”
• New Orleans Baptist Seminary, presentation and panel on “Textual Criticism and Exegesis”, 2009 (panel: Tommy Wasserman, Lund; Larry Hurtado, Edinburgh; and Michael Theophilos, Oxford University)
• Menighetsfakultetet, Oslo, Norge, annual guest lecture on “Textual Criticism” (2010-2018)
• Edinburgh University, New Testament Seminar, 2011: “The Son of God Was in the Beginning (Mark 1:1).”
• Edinburgh University, (College of Humanities & Social Science), 2011, “How on Earth Did Larry Hurtado Become a Text-Critic?” (guest lecture in honor of Professor L. W. Hurtado).
• Högskolan i Dalarna, 2012: “Bibeltexternas historia: på strövtåg bland handskrifter och skrivare” (guest lecture).
• Örebro School of Theology, 2013, Bibelsyn och bibelbruk (conference): “Hur blev Bibeln Bibeln? Om kanon” (How did the Bible become the Bible? On Canon).
• Southeastern Baptist Seminary, 2014, Pericope Adulterae Symposium (conference): “The Strange Case of the Missing Adulteress”. Followed by a panel discussion on the Pericope of the Adulteress (panel: David A. Black, Chris Keith, Jennifer W. Knust, J. D. Punch, Maurice A. Robinson, and Tommy Wasserman).
• St Mary’s College, Twickenham (London), 2014, Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity: Cultural, Historical and Textual Approaches (conference): “Variants of Evil: The Disassociation of Jesus from Evil in the Textual Tradition of the New Testament.”
• Församlingsfakulteten, Gothenburg, 2014, Guds ord och människors ord: Samtidigt? (conference): “The Text of the New Testament – Corrupted or Trustworthy?” (main paper).
• Ansgar Teologiske Högskole, Kristiansand, 2014: “The Text of the New Testament” (open lecture).
• Swedish Alliance Mission, Mullsjö Folkhögskola, 2015: “The Book to the Hebrews” (guest lecture).
• University of Agder, Kristiansand, 2015, “Fakes, Lies and Forgeries” Invited Lectures at the (guest lecture)
• University of Agder, Kristiansand, April 2016, “The Lying Pen of Scribes”: Manuscript Forgeries and Counterfeiting Scripture in the Twenty-First Century (conference): “Simonides Forgeries of New Testament Manuscripts in the Mayer Collection”
• University of Agder, Kristiansand, September 2016, Fragments of an Unbelievable Past? Constructions of Provenance, Narratives of Forgery (conference): “Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance.”
• Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, Logos in Oxford (workshop) at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, 2017: “The Future of Biblical Scholarship” (guest lecture)
• Springfield, Missouri, 2014, Passages (exhibit): “Scribes and Scholars: The History and Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism” (guest lecture).
• Dublin City University, 2017: Herman Hoskier and the Future of Textual Scholarship on the Bible (conference): “Methods of Evaluating Textual Relationships: From Bengel to the CBGM and beyond” (keynote).
• Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, Logos in Oxford (workshop) at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, 2018: “The Future of Biblical Scholarship” (guest lecture)
• Örebro School of Theology, 2018, Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (conference): “Early Readers of the Gospel of the Miracles of Jesus” (main paper).
• London School of Theology, 2018: “What is Happening in New Testament Textual Criticism?”
• St Mary’s University, Twickenham (London), British New Testament Society Conference, 2018: “Limitations and Future Improvements of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method” (paper). Followed by a panel on the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior: Acts of the Apostles (panel: Sean Adams, Dirk Jongkind, Klaus Wachtel, Steve Walton, Tommy Wasserman).
• ECM Expert Meeting, Volos (Greece), 2018: “Transcription, Apparatus Construction, and the CBGM” (invited by Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, Münster).
• VID Specialized University, Stavanger, February 2019. “New Testament textual criticism” (annual lecture).
• Svenska Exegetiska Sällskapet (Swedish Exegetical Society), 2019. Main lecture of Exegetiska dagen (annual meeting), “New Perspectives on Old Manuscripts,” held at Örebro School of Theology.
• Dallas Theological Seminary, 2019. “Wasserman Lecture: Current Trends in New Testament Textual Criticism” (guest lecture). '
• Copenhagen University. “Current Trends in New Testament Textual Criticism” (guest lecture).
• Gothenburg University. “Markus 1:1 och CBGM” (guest lecture).
• Dublin City University, 2021: Fresh Perspectives on the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Papyrology, and Communication in the Ancient World (conference): “Textual Divisions and Dating of Early Christian Papyri.”
• MF Vitenskapelig Høyskole, Oslo, 2021: “’Know Your Text:’ The Integrity and Interpretation of Alcibiades m. 133c8–17.”
• Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo. Books Known Only by Title webinar series (online), “The Epistle to the Laodiceans” and panelist.
• MARK 16 Conference (online), 2022:  “The Text and Paratext of Family 1 in Mark 16.”
• Örebro School of Theology, 2022. Song, Prayer and Scripture (conference on the Book of Psalms): “The Continuity between Jewish and Christian Psalms Manuscripts” (with Andreas Märs).
• Lanier Theological Library, Houston, 2023, “New Testament Manuscripts and Their World;” “Singing Psalms: The Poetic Layout of Psalms in Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts;” Panel Discussion.
• Macquarie University, Sydney. Annual Lectures of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity (SSEC), 2023. “The Dating Game: Text, Paratext and Dating of Early Christian Papyri; ” “Traces of Singing: Poetic Layout in Ancient Psalms Manuscripts."
• Duke University, Chapel Hill, 2023, “ The Subscriptions to Mark’s Gospel and Their History of Reception.”
• Chester Beatty, Dublin, 2023: “How did Jews and Christians read and sing the Psalms?” (lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Out of Egypt. https://chesterbeatty.ie/out-of-egypt-on-wednesday-evenings/

• SBL International Meeting, Groningen, 2004: “Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Codex” in the Working with Biblical Manuscript section.
• SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, 2006: “P78 (P. Oxy. XXXIV 2684)—The Epistle of Jude on an Amulet.”
• SBL International Meeting, Vienna, 2007: "Some New Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Vienna."
• Svenska kyrkans forskningsdagar, 2007: “Mening och missförstånd i nytestamentliga handskrifter.”
• University of Birmingham: The Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2007: “Theological Creativity and Scribal Solutions in Jude.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2007: “Two Verses Plucked From the Fire, Jude 22-23.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, Boston 2008: “Earth Accuses Earth: Tracing Jesus’ Writing on the Ground“ (with Jennifer Wright Knust).
• SBL International Meeting, Rome, 2009: “Misquoting Manuscripts: Orthodox Corruption Revisited.”.
• SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2009: “Text-types and Criteria for Evaluating Readings.”
• SBL International Meeting, Tartu 2010: “The ’Son of God’ Was in the Beginning (Mk 1:1).”
• SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2010: “A Comparative Textual Analysis of and P4, P64+P67.”
• University of Birmingham: The Seventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2011: “The Son of God was in the Beginning (Mark 1:1).”
• SBL International Meeting, London 2011: “P45 and the Caesarean Text Revisited.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2011: “The Liturgical Odes and the Text of the Christian Bible.”
• SBL International Meeting, Amsterdam 2012: “Lectio Vehementior Potior: Scribal Violence on Violent Texts?”
• SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago 2012: “The Coherence Based Genealogical Method as a Tool for Explaining Textual Changes.”
• University of Birmingham: The Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2013: “Lectio Vehementior Potior: Scribal Violence on Violent Texts?”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego 2014: “Historical and Philological Correlations of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio 2016: “A Few Necessary Things or Just One?”
• University of Birmingham: The Tenth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2017: “Was There an Early Alexandrian Recension of the Living Text of the Gospels?” and “The Significance of Liturgy in the Textual Transmission of the Pericope of the Adulteress” (with Jennifer W. Knust, Boston University).
• SBL Annual Meeting, Boston 2017: “The Cable Guy: Constantine Simonides and His New Testament Papyri (with Malcolm Choat, Macquarie University) and “Whence 1 Timothy? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions” (with Linnea Thorpe, University of Birmingham).
• SBL Annual Meeting, Denver 2018: Scribal Alterations to the ‘Canonical Gospels’ in Second- and Third-Century Manuscripts.”
• University of Birmingham: The Eleventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2019: “The Old Latin Text of the Pericope Adulterae."
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego 2019: “Constantine Simonides's 'Codex Mayerianus' and Its Model.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego 2019: “Second Timothy: When and Where? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions” (with Conrad Thorup Elmelund, University of Copenhagen).
• SBL Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting 2020. Codex Bezae as Repository.
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio 2021: “Archaic Mark" Revisited: Tying Up Some Loose Ends.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio 2021: “Scribal Harmonization of Matthew’s Fulfillment Citations in Codices Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, and Sinaiticus” (with Andreas Märs, Örebro School of Theology)
•    University of Birmingham (Catena project): “The Decentralising of the Biblical Text in Manuscript Formation,” 2022: “Marginalized Witnesses to the Greek New Testament Text in the Austrian National Library”
• Ansgar University College, “What’s in a good life?” Perspectives from psychology, philosophy, theology, music and intercultural studies,” 2022: “Self-Knowledge and Conversion: Three Ancient Playboys and Their Path to a Good Life.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, Denver 2022: “ECM Mark: Subscriptions and History of Reception” (with Conrad Thorup Elmelund).
• University of Birmingham: The Thirteenth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 2023: “New Light on the Marginalia of Family 1 in John.”
• SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio 2023: “God’s Mediator, Divider, and Cutter in Philo and Hebrews.”

• Örebro School of Theology, 25–27 January, 2011, The Gospel of Luke conference (organizing committee)
• Örebro School of Theology, 23–25 April, 2015, The Words of the Prophets (organizing committee and main editor of the conference volume Studies in Isaiah: History, Theology and Reception, T&T Clark, 2017).
• Örebro School of Theology, 8–9 March, 2018, Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (organizing committee and main editor of the conference volume Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, WUNT II.511 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019).
• Örebro School of Theology, 14–16 October, 2022, Song, Prayer, Scripture (on the Book of Psalms; organizing committee).
• ALT School of Theology, 5–7 March, 2025, Paul beyond Perspectives: Future Challenges in Pauline Studies (organizing committee).
• Chair of the SBL International Meeting program unit “Working with Biblical Manuscripts (Textual Criticism),” 2007-2013 (annual conference)
• Chair of SBL Annual Meeting program unit: Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, 2014-2021 (annual conference)
• Chair of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas New Testament Textual Criticism seminar, 2014-2024 (annual conference)
• Steering committee of SBL Annual Meeting program unit: Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, 2022- (annual conference)
• Steering committee of SBL Annual Meeting program unit: New Testament Textual Criticism, 2022- (annual conference)

• Secretary of the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP), 2011- (member since 2009)
• Senior editor of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (SBL Press), 2019-
• Associate editor of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (SBL Press), 2008-2018
• Editorial board of New Testament Studies (Cambridge University Press), 2014-2016
• Board member of Centre for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), 2010-
• Board member of the Swedish Bible Society, 2012-2018
• Board member of FRIFO – Frikyrkliga forskningsrådet, 2016–2021
• Consultant for the Swedish Bible Society for the new translation of the New Testament (to be published in 2026).
• Expert Panel for LEMMA (Leuven Multilingual Manuscript Research Centre, KU), 2023-

2023 Ansgar University College, NOK 25.000 (research grant)
2022 Örebro School of Theology, SEK 10.500 (travel grant)
2022 Ansgar University College, NOK 20.300 (travel grant)
2021 Ansgar University College, NOK 5.000 (travel grant)
2020 Ansgar University College, NOK 11.000 (travel grant)
2019 Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole, NOK12.000 (travel grant)
2018 Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Amsterdam, Visiting research fellow scholarship
2017 SCIO in Oxford, £900
2016 SCIO in Oxford, £900
2015 SCIO in Oxford, £900
2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation, SEK10.050 SEK
2009 Northern Scholar at The University of Edinburgh, £300 (https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/northern-scholars/archive/archive-2008-2009/dr-wasserman)
2009 Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings Minnesfond, SEK6.882
2009 Stiftelsen Andreas Rydelius stiftelse, SEK8.103
2009 Craafordska stiftelsen, SEK12.000
2009 Stiftelsen Andreas Rydelius stiftelse, SEK8103
2009 Craafordska stiftelsen, SEK12000
2008 Stiftelsen Andreas Rydelius stiftelse, SEK11000
2007 Gorgias Book Grant (Gorgias Press), $200
2007 Stiftelsen Andreas Rydelius stiftelse, SEK3895
2007 Craafordska stiftelsen, SEK12000
2006 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, SEK2800
2006 Craafordska stiftelsen, SEK18000
2006 Stiftelsen Fond från theologie doktorspromotionen 1868, 3000SEK
2005 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, SEK3000
2005 Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings Minnesfond, SEK2000
2004 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, SEK7000
2004 Stiftelsen Carl Swartz minnesfond, SEK 3500
2003 Craafordska stiftelsen, SEK25000
2003 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, SEK3000
2003 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, SEK5000
2002 Stiftelsen Carl Swartz minnesfond, SEK2100
2002 Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings Minnesfond, SEK8400

2021 Axel Wenner-Grens Stiftelse för Internationellt Forskarutbyte, 67.800SEK for organization of the  conference “Song, Prayer, Scripture” (on the Book of Psalms) at Örebro School of Theology, 2022.

2017 Swedish Research Council, 65.000SEK for organization of the conference “Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity” at Örebro School of Theology.

2017 European Commission. Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (KA 107). 81700 EURO for the organization of exchange program with Karen Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017–2018 (18 participants).

• Examining committee and faculty opponent of Timo Flink, “Studies in the second-century text of the New Testament” (PhD thesis, Joensuu universitet, Finland, 2009).
• Examining reader of Maegan Gilliland, “GA 1141 and Family 13” (Master thesis, Edinburgh University, 2010).
• Faculty opponent at concluding seminar for Dan Nässelqvist, “Public Reading and Aural Intensity. An Analysis of the Soundscape in John 1–4” (PhD thesis, Lunds universitet, 2014).
• Expert assessor of developing research leader, University of Birmingham, 2016.
• Examining committee for Bart Kamphuis, “Against All Authorities. The New Testament Conjectural Criticism of Jan Hendrik Holwerda (1805-1886) (PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017).
• Examining committee and faculty opponent for Morten Klepp Beckmann, “Bibelselskapets kristologi: Ideologi og oversettelse” (PhD thesis, Universitetet of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 2017).
• Expert assessor of candidate for promotion to Professor, University of Birmingham, 2018.
• External examiner of Andrew Edmondson, ““An Analysis of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method Using Phylogenetics” (PhD thesis, Birmingham University, 2018).
• Expert assessor of candidate for Senior Research Professor (senior BOFZAP), University of Leuven (KU Leuven), 2018.
• Examining committee for David Young, “Hesitating over Hebrews: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a Case Study in Problematizing the Question of 'Canon" (PhD thesis, Boston University, 2019).
• Examining committee for Carl-Johan Berglund, “Origen's References to Heracleon: A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John (PhD thesis, Uppsala University, 2019).
• Expert assessor of candidate for a research proposal in the programme “Reinforcing Women In Research (REWIRE)” in cooperation with the European Commission (https://rewire.univie.ac.at/), 2021.
• External examiner of Robert Bryson Turnbull, “The Textual History of Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and its Family” (PhD thesis, Australian College of Theology, 2021).
• Examining committee for Libbie Shrader, dissertation prospectus, “‘Those Who Love Me Will Keep My Word’: Shifting Gospel Stories in the Second Century.” Duke University, 2021. 
• Examining committee for Libbie Shrader, “‘Those Who Love Me Will Keep My Word’: Shifting Gospel Stories in the Second Century.” (PhD thesis, Duke University, 2023).
• Examining committee for Libbie Shrader, “‘Those Who Love Me Will Keep My Word’: Shifting Gospel Stories in the Second Century.” (PhD thesis, Duke University, 2023).
• External examiner of Brett Gray, "Scribal Habits in Mark in Light of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM)" (Master thesis, Phoenix Seminary, 2023).
• External examiner of Andrew Patton, “The Development of the Catenae on the Gospels” (PhD thesis, Birmingham University, 2023).

• Member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2004-
• Member of Swedish Exegetical Society, 2007-
• Member of Swedish Bible Academy, 2007-2018
• Member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), 2010-