Halvor Moxnes
Halvor Moxnes | |
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Moxnes in 2009 | |
| Born | 13 September 1944 Stokke, Norway |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| Thesis | Theology in Conflict (1977) |
| Influences | W. D. Davies |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Theology |
| Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
| Institutions | University of Oslo |
| Influenced | Liv Ingeborg Lied |
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 and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but lost to Trygve Wyller.