Rolf Johan Furuli (né le ) est professeur émérite de langues sémitiques à l'université d'Oslo; il a pris sa retraite en 2011. Furuli a enseigné l'akkadien, l'araméen, l'guèze, l'hébreu, le phénicien, le syriaque et l'ougaritique à l'université d'Oslo et à l'Institut norvégien de paléographie et de philologie historique.

Éducation

Furuli devient magister artium en 1995 et doctor artium en 2005. En 2005, Furuli défend sa thèse de doctorat suggérant une nouvelle compréhension du système verbal de l'hébreu classique.

Dans une revue de la thèse, le professeur Elisabeth R. Hayes du Wolfson College, Oxford, écrit : . David Kummerow pense que de l'hébreu biblique.

En 2020, Furuli publie un livre intitulé My Beloved Religion – and the Governing Body dans lequel il soutient les doctrines fondamentales et la chronologie biblique telles que défendues par les Témoins de Jéhovah dont il est membre, mais remet en question l'autorité des dirigeants de ce mouvement. En conséquence, il est excommunié du mouvement par la hiérarchie de cette dernière pour apostasie.

Bibliographie

1995 – Imperfect consecutive and the Verbal system of Biblical Hebrew (thèse, magister artium, université d'Oslo) 1997 – The Problem of Induction and the Hebrew verb in Elie Wardini (ed.) Built on solid Rock. 1999 – The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation with a special look at the New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses 2000 – Modern models and the study of dead languages Motskrift NTNU, Trondheim pp. 83–86 2001 – The study of new religious movements with a stress on the mental health of Jehovah's Witnesses Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 2, pp. 123–128. 2001 – Gilgamesh and Atrahasis two Babylonian Heroes 2002 – Science and Bible translation—"Christianizing" and "mythologizing" of the Hebrew text of the Bible 2002 – The NWT's translation of the Hebrew verbal system with particular stress on waw consecutive (33 pages), in Tony Byatt and Hal Fleming's (eds) Your Word is Truth—The Fiftieth Anniversary of the New World Translation 2003 – Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 1: Persian Chronology and the Length of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews 2003 – The book of Enoch – translated from Ge'ez to Norwegian. 2004 – The Dead Sea Scrolls 2005 – The verbal System of Classical Hebrew An Attempt to Distinguish Between Semantic and Pragmatic Factors in L. Ezard and J. Retsø (eds.) Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon I pp. 205–31. 2006 – A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew—An attempt to distinguish between pragmatic and semantic factors 2006 – Sumerian Writings 2007 – The Neo-Babylonian Chronology and the Cuneiform Tablet VAT 4956 in Forschung-Bibel-Artefakte. pp. XIV-XVIII 2007 – Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian Chronology 2008 – Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 1: Persian Chronology and the Length of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews, revised edition 2008 – Kebra Nagast 2008 – Baal the King of the Gods in Ugarit 2009 – How do Jehovah's Witnesses think? A Witness describes the faith, in H.K. Ringnes and H.K. Sødal, eds Jehovahs Witnesses An interdisciplinary Study 2011 – The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation With a Special Look at the New World Translation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Second edition, Stavern, Norway: Awatu Publishers. 2012 – Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 1: Persian Chronology and the Length of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews, Second edition 2012 – Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian Chronology, Second edition 2017 – When Was the Book of Daniel Written? A Philological, Linguistic, and Historical approach 2018 – The Tetragram—Its history, Its use in the new Testament, and its pronunciation, Part One 2018 – Are Jehovah's Witnesses False Prophets?: A Thorough Investigation with Rebuttal, William Kelly and Rolf Furuli 2019 – Can We Trust the Bible? With Focus on the Creation Account, the Worldwide Flood, and the Prophecies 2020 – The fallacy of prophetic perfect—With translation of verses from the Prophets 2020 – My Beloved Religion—and the Governing Body

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Catégorie:Naissance en décembre 1942 Catégorie:Professeur à l'université d'Oslo Catégorie:Traducteur norvégien du XXe siècle Catégorie:Traducteur norvégien du XXIe siècle