Ed Parish Sanders was an American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul". He was a major scholar in the scholarship on the historical Jesus and contributed to the view that Jesus was part of a renewal movement within Judaism. Sanders identified himself as a "liberal,modern,secularized Protestant" in his book Jesus and Judaism;fellow scholar John P. Meier called him a postliberal Protestant. He was Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University,North Carolina from 1990 until his retirement in 2005.
John Barton is a British Anglican priest and biblical scholar. From 1991 to 2014,he was the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. In addition to his academic career,he has been an ordained and serving priest in the Church of England since 1973.
Anders Platou Wyller was a Norwegian philologist and humanist.
Peter Andreas Munch was a Norwegian-born sociologist,educator,and writer. In 1948,he immigrated to the United States as a post-doctoral research fellow studying Norwegian-American rural sociology in the Midwest. He ended his professional career at Southern Illinois University,with a focus on graduate studies and sociological research based on trips to the remote South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha.
Ola Mikal Heide is a Norwegian botanist.
Trygve Wyller is a Norwegian theologian.
Thomas Christian Wyller was a professor of political science at the University of Oslo. He is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway,and his area of interest was modern political history.
Arne Odd Johnsen was a Norwegian medieval and economic historian.
Jacob Stephan Jervell was a Norwegian theologian,professor emeritus,author and priest.
Olav Riste was a Norwegian historian.
Knut Kleve was a Norwegian classical philologist and a professor at the University of Bergen and at the University of Oslo. He was particularly known for his efforts on restoration of papyrus fragments from the ancient Roman town Herculaneum.
Øivind Andersen is a Norwegian philologist.
Per Engebret Stockfleth Enger was a Norwegian zoophysiologist.
Arne Mathias Løvlie was a Norwegian zoologist.
Peder Johan Borgen is a Norwegian Methodist minister,has a Doctorate in Theology,and is a retired professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is considered a pioneer "within the theological scientific community in Norway and was the first Methodist and the first member of a Norwegian Free Church who took the theological doctorate at a Norwegian university."
Halvor Solberg was a Norwegian meteorologist.
Halvor Bergan was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Agder from 1983 until his retirement in 1998.
Hans Magnus Barstad was a Norwegian theologian.
Svein Aage Christoffersen is a Norwegian theologian.
Karl Halvor Teigen is a Norwegian psychologist.
