Halvor Moxnes
Birth date13 September 1944 (age 81)
Birth placeStokke, Norway
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Thesis year1977
InfluencesW. D. Davies
DisciplineTheology
Sub disciplineNew Testament studies
WorkplacesUniversity of Oslo
InfluencedLiv Ingeborg Lied[1]

Halvor Moxnes (born 1944) is a Norwegian theologian.

He was born in Stokke on 13 September 1944. He received his Doctor of Theology 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[2] and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3] In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but lost to Trygve Wyller.[4]

References

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