Magnar Kartveit

Magnar Kartveit is Professor of Old Testament and Emeritus Professor at VID Specialized University, Norway. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Uppsala was about the land of Israel in Chronicles. He has published books on the origin of the Samaritans and on Hebrew language. From 2008 to 2016 he served as president of Société d’Études Samaritaines, and in 2009 he was visiting scholar at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut.