Curriculum Vitae 1.11.2018 PERSONAL INFORMATION Full name: Pajunen, Mika Sakari Date of birth: 12.5.1976 Nationality: Finnish URL for website: https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/mspajune and https://helsinki.academia.edu/MikaPajunen ORCID: 0000-0001-5557-7577 Work address: Home address: Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology Savitie 8A P.O. Box 4 (Vuorikatu 3) 04400 Järvenpää 00014 University of Helsinki Finland Finland e-mail: [email protected] tel. +358 50 584 9539 · EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES 2015 Docent in Old Testament Studies, University of Helsinki 2012 Doctor of Theology in Biblical Studies Thesis title: The Land to the Elect and Justice for All: Search for the Function and Setting(s) of 4QNon-Canonical Psalms B (4Q381) Thesis grade: Laudatur, = highest available grade, top 5%, all other grades: 5/5 Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland Thesis Supervisor: Professor (emerita) Raija Sollamo 2004 Master of Theology Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland Other Academic Education 2018 University Pedagogy 2.2 and 3.1 (10 Cr.) 2013 University Pedagogy 1 and 2.1 (10 Cr). · LANGUAGE SKILLS - Finnish: Native language - English: Fluent (University courses, international cooperation, translations, etc.) - Swedish: Satisfactory oral and written skills in University exam for the second official language - German: Basics - Biblical Hebrew: Excellent - New Testament Greek: Good - Coptic, Syriac, Latin, Aramaic: Basics · CURRENT POSITION 8/2017 – University researcher in Old Testament Studies, Center of Excellence Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki · PREVIOUS POSITIONS 9/2016 – 7/2017 University lecturer in Old Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki 2013 – 8/2016 Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the Academy of Finland 1 working at the Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki 2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher 20% buyout “’Biblical’ Texts Older than the Bible” –project, University of Agder, Norway 2006 – 2012 Doctoral student, Faculty of Theology (2006 – 2009, 2011–2012), and Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2009–2011) as part of a multidisciplinary postgraduate studies network “Meaning, Language and Changing Cultures”, University of Helsinki 2007 – 2013 Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland 2007 Proofreading of DJD XL, E. Schuller/Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation 2007 Technical editing of a translation volume of Qumran texts, NNQS (Nordforsk) 2006–2007 Secretary of the Nordic Network in Qumran Studies, NNQS (Nordforsk) · MAJOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 2016 Visiting fellow, 2 months, University of Manchester, UK 2015 Academy of Finland visiting fellow, 2 months, University of Agder, NORWAY 2014 Academy of Finland visiting fellow, 3 months, McMaster University, CANADA 2013 Academy of Finland visiting fellow, 4 months, Georg-August Universität, GERMANY 2005 – 2012 Five visits to IAA Dead Sea Scrolls laboratory, altogether 2 months, Jerusalem, ISRAEL 2007 Visiting doctoral student, 4 months, McMaster University, CANADA · RESEARCH GRANTS 2014 Funding for Nordic exploratory workshops, PI, Nordic Research Council, 240000NOK 2013 Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher grant, 249363€ 2013 Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation’s postdoctoral grant, 22000€ 2012 Emil Aaltonen Foundation’s postdoctoral grant, 13200€ 2007 Academy of Finland’s Researcher training abroad scholarship, 11000€ 2006 – 2009 Emil Aaltonen Foundation’s Young Researcher’s grants (3 times x 20300€) Preparation of other successful funding applications: 2013 Member and secretary of the team that prepared the application of Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions Center of Excellence for the Academy of Finland (PI Martti Nissinen) 2008 – 2010 Project secretary of “Conflicting Identities: Social and Religious Identities in Light of the Qumran Material from the Judaean Desert” funded by the Academy of Finland. Responsible for the application together with PI Raija Sollamo. · SUPERVISION AND TEACHING 2017- MA seminar and supervision of eight MA thesis in HB and NT, half of which have been finished thus far. 2017 Evaluation of seven MA thesis and supervision of MA thesis of Erika Stigell on the Figure of Moses in Hebrews. 2016 – 2017 BA seminar and supervision of nine BA thesis and their evaluation. 2016 – Supervision of doctoral thesis of Marika Pulkkinen on Paul’s Use of Psalms: Quotations, Allusions, and Psalm Clusters in Romans and 1 Corinthians.” 2013 –2017 A lecture course per year for Master and Postgraduate level on a varying topic: “Qumran and the New Testament,” “Manuscripts, scribal practices and traditional methods,” and “Psalms and identity formation”. BA level: “Psalms and their Theology”. 2008 –2016 Tutor = practical supervisor of Master’s Thesis (students: Hanna-Riitta Mäkitalo and Katri Kokko), University of Helsinki, Finland, and unofficial consultation of doctoral students both from Finland and McMaster University. 2009 Jerusalem, a group leader on an MA level study trip organized by the Faculty of Theology, and study of the original Qumran manuscripts at IAA facilities (2 weeks) 2008 Coordinator and Lecturer, Helsinki Summer School Course “Qumran Movement in Second Temple Judaism”, University of Helsinki, Finland 2007 – 2017 Teaching courses on the use of exegetical methods and/or Biblical Hebrew · AWARDS 2 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise 2014, 10000$, granted every year to ten scholars worldwide for outstanding doctoral or post-doctoral book. The most esteemed award available in Religious Studies in this stage of the career. · OTHER ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Organization of Scientific Meetings 2017 – Member of the Steering Committee for SBL Annual Meeting Section: Prayer in Antiquity 2017 –2018 Member of the Arrangement Committee for the annual meeting of CoE CSTT in 2018 2017 Lead organizer of a Nordic Symposium on the Functions of Psalms and Prayers held in Helsinki 7th of April 2017. 2016 – Chair of SBL Annual Meeting section: Transmission of Traditions in the Second Temple Period 2016 – 2017 Member of the Arrangement Committee for the 2017 OTSEM meeting in Helsinki 2015 PI and lead organizer in the Nordic exploratory workshops project (NOS-HS): Nordic Voices on the Function of Psalms and Prayers in Late Second Temple Period Judaism. Two meetings held in 2015: Helsinki, Finland and Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 – Co-chair with Dr. Jeremy Penner of the research group the “Dead Sea Scrolls” in the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) 2008 – 2010 Member of the Arrangement Committee for the 2010 IOSOT (International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament) meeting held in Helsinki 2009 Member of the Arrangement Committee: 2009 Doctoral Course of the Faculty of Theology Institutional Responsibilities 2017 Department representative in the evaluation of teaching skills for the title of docent 2017 – Member of the Faculty Research Board 2016 – Vice leader of team 3 “Literary Criticism in the Light of Documented Evidence” in the “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions” (CSTT)- Center of Excellence. 2014 Post-doc representative in the board of the Center of Excellence: CSTT 2008 – 2010 Project Secretary in the project “Conflicting Identities: Social and Religious Identities in Light of the Qumran Material from the Judaean Desert” funded by the Academy of Finland 2006 – 2007 Secretary of the Nordic Network in Qumran Studies, NNQS (Nordforsk) Commissions of Trust 2015 – Member of the Editorial Team re-editing “Discoveries in the Judaean Desert III” (Responsible for manuscripts 2Q22, 5Q14, 6Q11, 6Q18 and 8Q5). 2013 – Responsible for textual critical evaluation of allusions and quotations to Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah in late Second Temple Jewish literature, project led by Prof. A. Lange 2011 – Member of the Editorial Team re-editing “Discoveries in the Judaean Desert I” (Responsible for manuscripts 1Q10-12, 1Q30, 1Q34, 1Q36 and 1Q40). 2011 – Member of the Editorial board (responsible for the Finnish research) of the encyclopedia “4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins” 2009 – Member of the Editorial Team re-editing “Discoveries in the Judaean Desert V” (Responsible for re-editing manuscript 4Q185) 2006 – 2015 Coordinator and editor in the Finnish translation project of the Qumran texts Academic Presentations in International Conferences (* invited paper) *11/2018 Denver, SBL Annual Meeting *10/2018 Erfurt, Conference on “Psalms in Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present.” *8/2018 Helsinki, EABS/ISBL Annual Meeting *5/2018 Frauenwörth, The Criteria for Detecting Scribal Interventions symposium *2/2018 Heidelberg, Material Aspects on Reading conference *11/2017 Two invited papers, Boston, SBL Annual Meeting *8/2017 Copenhagen, symposium on the Aramaic texts from Qumran *5/2017 Hong Kong, Workshop on Editorial Processes *7/2016 Leuven, EABS Annual Meeting 3 *5/2016 Helsinki, Workshop on Documented Editing, CSTT *2/2016 Edinburgh, Department Seminar at University of Edinburgh *2/2016 Dublin, Trinity College Biblical Studies Seminar *2/2016 Manchester, Ehrhard Seminar 9/2015 Helsinki, Workshop on the Function of Psalms and Prayers *7/2015 Cordoba, EABS Annual Meeting *6/2015 Oslo, NLA School of Theology, The DSS, Innovative Technologies, New Material *4/2015 Kristiansand, University of Agder, Holy Scriptures Forum *12/2014 Toronto, Emmanuel College, workshop