Rolf Furuli

Rolf Johan Furuli ( born December 19, 1942) is a Norwegian philologist and linguist. He was a lecturer and lecturer in ancient Semitic languages ​​and literatures at the University of Oslo.

Furuli studied the subjects Semitic language, Greek, Latin and general linguistics. In 1995, he graduated in Oslo his studies with a Master of Arts and a work on the system of verbs in classical Hebrew. In 1999 he held a position as assistant professor in Oslo, 2005, he earned his PhD with a thesis on the determinate and indeterminate verbs of Hebrew Bible. As a lecturer he taught the Akkadian language, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Syriac, and Ugaritic. Research projects, he was responsible for redrafting the chronology of the neo-Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires New on the corpus of traditional cuneiform texts. For these and other texts and languages ​​made ​​Furuli to Norwegian transmissions for the publication " Verdens Hellige Skrifter " ("The holy scriptures of the world ").

In addition to other language and cultural studies research and publications published Furuli in particular on issues of Old and New Testament Bible translation and textual history. Criticized his work is Jehovah because of its proximity to the religious community of the witnesses.

Works

  • Imperfect consecutive and the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew. Oslo 1995 ( Oslo Univ., Master's thesis ).
  • The Problem of Induction and the Hebrew verb. In: Elie WARDINI (ed.): Built on Solid Rock. Studies in Honour of Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday April 11th 1997 ( = Institutt for sammenlignende kulturforskning Series B:. Skrifter 98. ). Novus forlag, Oslo 1997, ISBN 82-7099-283-6, pp. 82-90.
  • The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation. With a Special Look at the New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Elihu Books, Huntington Beach CA 1999, ISBN 0-9659814-4-4.
  • The persiske kronologi above Lengden av jødenes babyloniske fangenskap ( = Assyrisk, babylonisk, egyptisk og Persian kronologi sammenlignet med Bibelens kronologi. Vol. 1). Self Publishing, Oslo 2003, ISBN 82-994633-2-7.
  • A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew. An Attempt to distinguish in between semantic and pragmatic factors. Awatu Publishers, Oslo 2006, ISBN 82-994633-4-3.
  • Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Persian chronology Compared with the chronology of the Bible. Furuli AS, Oslo; Volume 1: Persian chronology and the length of the Babylonian exile of the Jews. 2003, ISBN 82-994633-3-5;
  • Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian chronology. 2007, ISBN 978-82-994633-6-2 ( Slightly revised edition. Ibid. 2008).
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