Prof. Thomas Kazen is professor of Biblical Studies at Stockholm School of Theology, University College Stockholm. He received his PhD in 2002 from Uppsala University, Sweden. His numerous books include Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2002); Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism (Eisenbrauns, 2010); Emotions in Biblical Law: A Cognitive Science Approach (Sheffield Phoenix, 2011); Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts (Mohr Siebeck, 2013); Smuts, skam, status: Perspektiv på samkönad sexualitet i Bibeln och antiken (Makadam, 2018); Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition (SBL, 2021); Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity: Supplement 1: Emotions and Hierarchies (EHS, 2022); (co-author, with Rikard Roitto) Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World: A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair (Mohr Siebeck, 2024); and Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Relationships in the Bible and the Ancient World (Eerdmans, 2024). Between 2017 and 2021, he led a research project on "Dynamics of moral repair in antiquity"—a comparative analysis of early Jewish, early Christian, and Greco-Roman ideals, practices, and rituals for forgiveness, reconciliation, atonement, compensation, and revenge, funded by the Swedish Research Council.