Halvor Moxnes

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