Rolf Furuli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rolf Furuli

lecturer and author

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1942

Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway

Profession: translator, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Rolf Johan Furuli (born 19 December 1942) is a professor emeritus in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo until his retirement in 2011.
Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984.
He became a magister artium in 1995 and doctor artium in 2005.
Based on his studies, Furuli has defended the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC.
In a 2004 issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Lester L.
Grabbe, professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, said of Furuli's study: "Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship.
...
F.
shows little evidence of having put his theories to the test with specialists in Mesopotamian astronomy and Persian history."In 2005, Furuli defended his doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of verbal system of Classical Hebrew.
In a review of the thesis, professor Elisabeth R.
Hayes of Wolfson College, Oxford, wrote: "While not all will agree with Furuli's conclusions regarding the status of the wayyiqtol as an imperfective form, his well-argued thesis contributes towards advancing methodology in Hebrew scholarship."He has translated a number of documents from Semitic languages and Sumerian into Norwegian.