Rolf Furuli

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Rolf Johan Furuli (born 19 December 1942^[1]) is a lecturer in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo.

He is currently involved in translation of non-Christian religious texts, and is considered an expert in ancient languages. In 2005, he finished a doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of Classical Hebrew. This study has been privately published.

He is one of Jehovah's Witnesses and has written works about Bible translation and Biblical issues.

Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984 and has attempted to defend the Biblical chronology advocated by the Wachtower Bible and Tract Society. He has defended the view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BCE rather than 587 BCE.

Alongside Norwegian and Hebrew, he is able to read Akkadian, Aramaic, English and Greek.

Contents 1 Writings 2 See also 3 Sources 4 External links

[edit] Writings

• 1995 - Imperfect consecutive and the Verbal system of Biblical Hebrew
• 1997 - The Problem of Induction and the Hebrew verb
• 1999 - The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation with a special look at the New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses ISBN 0-9659814-4-4
• 2000 - Modern models and the study of dead languages
• 2001 - The study of new religious movements with a stress on the mental health of Jehovah's Witnesses (with Leon Groenewald and Johan Nerdrum)
• 2001 - Gilgamesh and Atrahasis (with Jens Braarvig and Tor Åge Bringsværd)
• 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 Flemings (eds) Your Word is Truth The Fiftieth Anniversary of the New World Translation. ISBN 0-9506212-6-9
• 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 ISBN 82-994633-3-5
• 2003 (In preparation) - The book of Enoch
• 2004 (In preparation) - The Dead Sea Scrolls
• 2006 - A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew - An attempt to distinguish between pragmatic and semantic factors ISBN 82-994633-4-3
• 2007 - Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Persian Chronology Compared with the Chronology of the Bible, Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian Chronology. ISBN 978-82-994633-6-2

[edit] See also

• Bible chronology
• Egyptian chronology

[edit] Sources

• Rolf Furuli - Bibliography

[edit] External links

• A Discussion of the Biblical Material in the Book Persian Chronology and the Length of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews by Rolf Furuli By linguist Kristen Jørgensen- Critical view expressed on a web page that is, "founded by former members of Jehovah's Witnesses"
• A critical review expressed on a web page that is, "founded by former members of Jehovah's Witnesses" of Rolf Furuli's Persian Chronology and the Length of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews
• A complete review of JWs own bible-based chronology, and a full overview of actual known history and archaeology surrounding this time in history a page listing historical and archaeological facts known about the Babylonian period in question.