Born 1955; studies of Theology in Oslo, Tübingen, and Jerusalem; 1994 Dr. theol.; Professor of New Testament at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger.

• Jostein Ådna: The Formation of the Early Church: An Introduction - Mikael Tellbe: The Temple Tax as a Pre-70 CE Identity Marker - Anders Klostergaard Petersen: At the End of the Road: Reflections on a Popular Scholarly Metaphor - Hanna Stenström: New Voices in Biblical Exegesis: New Views on the Formation of the Church - Jon Ma. Asgeirsson: Complex and Community: From the Prophets of Q to the Scribe(s) of St. Matthew or Vice Versa - Reidar Hvalvik: All Those Who in Every Place Call on the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ: The Unity of the Pauline Churches - Hans Kvalbein: The Authorization of Peter in Matthew 16:17-19: A Reconsideration of the Power to Bind and Loose - Lone Fatum: Christ Domesticated: The Household Theology of the Pastorals as Political Strategy - Outi Leppä: Debates within the New Testament Canon - Antti Marjanen: Montanism and the Formation of the New Testament Canon - Petri Luomanen: On the Fringes of Canon: Eusebius' View of the "Gospel of the Hebrews" - Reidar Aasgaard: Brothers and Sisters in the Faith: Christian Siblingship as an Ecclesiological Mirror in the First Two Centuries - Mikael Isacson: Follow Your Bishop! Rhetorical Strategies in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch - Matti Myllykoski: Wild Beasts and Rabid Dogs: The Riddle of the Heretics in the Letters of Ignatius - Odd Magne Bakke: The Episcopal Ministry and the Unity of the Church from the Apostolic Fathers to Cyprian -