Valery Alikin
Degree - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Position - Head of the Department of Biblical Studies
Disciplines: exegetics and theology of the Gospels, exegetics
and theology of Paul, the method of theological research, biblical
hermeneutics, theology of the Old Testament, New Testament Greek. Research interests:
Over the last decade, a paradigm shift is seen in studying
the life and practices of the early Christian church. More and more, modern researchers are moving from dominating in the
twentieth century literary-critical approach to the study of early Christian
texts to the historical and sociological, which draws to study aspects of the
material culture of the Hellenistic world, in the context of which the first
Christian communities were formed and developed. The new approach has widened
the scope for the study of sociological aspects of the assembly of the first
Christians, such as time and place of meetings, social structure and
relationships between participants in meetings, etc. A careful reading of New Testament
texts and authors of the second and third centuries, it seems necessary to
study various aspects liturgical practices of early Christian
communities, as well as manifestations of religiosity of the early Christians
in their daily lives.
List of publications:
Monographs
Alikin, Valeriy A. The
Earliest History of the Christian Gathering. Origin,
Development and Content of the Christian Gathering in the First to Third
Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Articles:
Alikin, Valeriy. "The Reading of Texts in the
Graeco-Roman Symposium and the Christian Gathering." In Symposion and
Philanthropia in Plutarch, eds. José Ribeiro
Ferreira, Delfim Leão, Manuel Tröster & Paula Barata Dias, pp. 103-112.
Coimbra: Classica Digitalia / CECH, 2009.
Alikin, Valeriy. "The Origin of Sunday as the
Christian Feast-Day." In Feasts and Festivals, ed. Christopher Tuckett,
pp. 161-170. Leuven: Peeters, 2009.
Contact
information:
Phone: +7(812) 747-2547
Email address:
valikin@spbcu.ru
Mailing address: Narvsky Pr., PO Box 211, St. Petersburg,
190020, Russia
Personal page on vkontakte.ru : Valery Alikin