On December 12, 2024, Medhat Nady Youssef (Egypt) first gave his trial lecture and defended his Ph.D. thesis From Judgment to Blessing: The Egypt Motif in the Rhetoric of Isaiah 19, at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. The thesis had been supervised by Professor Marta Høyland Lavik and Professor Knut Holter, and the members of the Ph.D. committee were Professor Gard Granerød (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo), Professor Dag Oredsson (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong), and Professor Tina Dykesteen Nilsen (VID Specialized University, Stavanger).