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 Semitic language, Greek, Latin and general linguistics. In 1995 he completed his studies in Oslo with a master's degree and a thesis on the system of verbs in classical Hebrew. In 1999 he held a position as assistant professor in Oslo, and in 2005 he obtained his doctorate. phil with a work on the definite and indefinite verbs of the Hebrew Bible. As a lecturer he taught the Akkadian language, Aramaic , Ethiopian , Hebrew , Phoenician , Syriac and Ugaritic. He supervised research projects for the new drafting of the chronology of the New Assyrian, New Babylonian and Persian Empires based on the corpus of the traditional cuneiform texts. From these and other texts and languages ​​Furuli made Norwegian transcriptions for the publication "Verdens Hellige Skrifter" ("The holy writings of the world").

In addition to other linguistic and cultural studies and publications, Furuli publishes, in particular, on issues relating to the Old and New Testament Bible translation and text history. His work is criticized because of its proximity to the religious community of Jehovah's 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 Honor 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 and lengden av jødenes babyloniske fangenskap (= Assyrisk, Babylonisk, egyptisk and persisk kronologi sammenlignet med Bibelens kronologi. Vol. 1). Self-published, Oslo 2003, ISBN 82-994633-2-7 .
• A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew. An attempt to distinguish 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).

Web links

• Information on Rolf Furuli and publications at the Oslo University Library