Crossing Borders: The Life and Work of Peder Borgen in Context - Paperback

by Torrey Seland (Author), Paul N. Anderson (Foreword by)

The intention of this biography is--on the one hand--to describe what happened as Peder Borgen (b. 1928) grew up and tried to establish himself as a theologian and a New Testament scholar in his Norwegian and Lutheran state-church context. On the other hand, it also describes how his development and life as a student of the New Testament and Philo of Alexandria were influenced by his minority background and the borders he had to cross to achieve his goals. Crossing Borders is thus a description of the life and work of a Norwegian Methodist, scholar, church politician, ecumenist, and an internationally acclaimed writer on the Gospel of John and Philo of Alexandria. Students of both the New Testament and Philo of Alexandria should feel enlightened by this volume of how context may influence both a person and his scholarly achievements.

Author Biography

Torrey Seland is professor emeritus in New Testament studies at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. He has published several studies on 1 Peter and Philo of Alexandria. He is the editor of Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria (2014) and the author of a Norwegian biography of Peder Borgen (2020).