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Kjetil Hannevik Friestad

PhD Research Fellow

 
Office:
26001 ( Universitetsveien 26, Kristiansand )

PhD research fellow in religious studies, focusing on the history of Christianity in northeastern Arabia.Educated at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society:

  • MA in theology (2011-2017)
  • Practical pedagogy (2016-2017)

Exchange semester to Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen autumn 2015

Field assistant for Varvaria-Breberium-Bribir Archaeological Project 2017-2019

Research interests

My PhD project is on the history of Christianity in northeast Arabia, i.e. the coastline and islands of the Perso-Arabian Gulf from Kuwait to the United Arab Emirates. The main focus is on the development of monasticism in this region, from ca 350 to ca 800 AD.

Academic interests

Syriac Christianity

Early Christianity

History of religions

Theology

Archaeology

 

Member of the research group Holy Scriptures and Authoritative Texts

Coordinator for the Holy Scriptures Forum

Leading the Syriac reading group

Scientific publications

  • Friestad, Kjetil Hannevik (2024). How do we know if a monk is a monk? - An example of diversity of asceticism among East Syriac Christians of the East Arabian coastland in the late 6th century.
  • Friestad, Kjetil Hannevik (2023). An Archival Turn in Syriac Studies - Transparent subjectivity as an approach to the archives.

Last changed: 28.11.2023 09:11