Halvor Moxnes | |
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Born | Stokke, Norway | 13 September 1944
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Thesis | Theology in Conflict[1] (1977) |
Influences | W. D. Davies |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
Institutions | University of Oslo |
Influenced | Liv Ingeborg Lied[2] |
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[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 lost to Trygve Wyller.[5]