Halvor Moxnes

Halvor Moxnes (born 1944) is a Norwegian theologian.

Halvor Moxnes
Moxnes in 2009
Born (1944-09-13) 13 September 1944
Stokke, Norway
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
ThesisTheology in Conflict[1] (1977)
InfluencesW. D. Davies
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-disciplineNew Testament studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Oslo
InfluencedLiv Ingeborg Lied[2]

He was born in Stokke on 13 September 1944. He took the dr.theol. degree in 1978 with the thesis Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans, and was appointed as a professor of the New Testament at the University of Oslo in 1984. In 2005 he received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen[3] and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but succumbed to Trygve Wyller.[5]

References
  1. Moxnes, Halvor (1977). Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans (doctoral thesis). Oslo: University of Oslo. OCLC 466553294.
  2. Lied, Liv Ingeborg (2008). The Other Lands of Israel: Imaginations of the Land in 2 Baruch. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism. 129. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. xiii. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004165564.i-376. ISBN 978-90-04-16556-4. ISSN 1384-2161.
  3. Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Halvor Moxnes". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  4. "Gruppe 8: Religionsvitenskap og teologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  5. Kirknes, Leif M. (18 October 2006). "Wyller blir TF-dekan". Universitas (in Norwegian).


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