Torleif Elgvin

Torleif Elgvin (born February 21, 1950 in Steigen ) is a Norwegian Protestant theologian and specialist in Qumran research .

Life

Elgvin studied religious history and Semitic languages at the University of Oslo from 1974 to 1976 . From 1980 to 1985, after completing his theology studies, he was pastor of the Norwegian Church in the parish of Alta . He was then director of the Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies in Jerusalem until 1993 . In 1998 the Hebrew University Jerusalem awarded him a PhD in Biblical Studies for a thesis on 4QInstruction . This is a wisdom text from cave 4 of Qumran.

From 1997 to 2004 Elgvin was Lecturer / Associate professor for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Oslo , from 2004 to 2012 Associate Professor at the Evangelical Lutheran University in Oslo (Høgskolen i Staffeldtsgate) and since 2013 Professor for Biblical and Jewish studies at NLA University College in Oslo.

Focus of work

Elgvin has been co-editor of The Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project ( Israel Antiquities Authority / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) since 1992 . From 1995 to 2000 he published ten fragments of Qumran scrolls in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series . He is editor of the series Judean Desert Fragments in The Schøyen Collection , a project in which fragments of 30 scrolls will be published as of 2015.

He worked on the revision of the Norwegian Bible and was the main translator of the books Kohelet and Proverbs .

Others

Together with Sven Aasmundveit, Torleif Elgvin rewrote a psalm from Qumran into a Norwegian hymn , which is sung to a traditional Irish melody. It is in the new church hymn book (Norsk salmebok).

Works

• (with Michael Langlois, Kipp Davis) Gleanings from the Caves . Dead Sea Scrolls and Artefacts from the Schøyen Collection . Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN 0567113000

Web links

• Own homepage
• NLA University College: Curriculum Vitae, CV. Torleif Elgvin
• Qumran Psalm as a hymn: Som toner i en evig sang