Thomas Kazen is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Stockholm School of Theology (University College Stockholm). Among his publications are Jesus and Purity Halakhah (2002, reprints 2010, 2021), Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism (2010), Emotions in Biblical Law (2011), Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? (2013), Smuts, skam, status (2018), Etik och retorik i Jesustraditionen (2021), and Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition (2021).