Education
1992 Cand. theol. (Th.M) from University of Copenhagen
1992 Graduate from Copenhagen Pastoral Seminary
2001 Ph.D. from University of Aarhus, Denmark
(Dissertation: Text and History: Historiography and the Old Testament Text)
2003 Adjunktpædagogikum (course in pedagogy required from DK university teachers )
Employment
1983 – 1984 Youth worker in Kristeligt Forbund for Studerende (IFES)
1985 – 1992 Janitor and verger at Kingo’s Church, Copenhagen.
1992 – 1995 Youth secretary in Evangelisk Luthersk Missionsforening (revival movement)
1993 – 1995 Part time teacher in Old Testament at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
1995 – 2005 Lecturer in Old Testament at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
2003 – 2006 Lecturer in multimediahomiletics at Aalborg University
2005 Acting Principal at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
2005 – 2014 Associate Professor in Old Testament at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
2008 – 2013 Associate Professor in Old Testament at Fjellhaug International University College
2009 – 2010 Programme Director at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
2011 Visiting Professor at the Theological Faculty of the Malagassy Lutheran Church
2013 – Professor of Old Testament at Fjellhaug International University College, Oslo
2014 – Professor of Old Testament at Fjellhaug International University College, Copenhagen
2014 – Professor of Old Testament at Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology
Specialization and Research Projects
1998 – 2001 Ph.D.-studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
1999 – 2000 Studies under prof. Alan Millard and Kenneth A. Kitchen, University of Liverpool
2011 – Member of the Bridging Data and Tradition Research Project funded by Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and executed as a joint project of the Leiden
Institute for Religious Studies and the Amsterdam WIVU group.at Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam.
2011 – Organizer of the EUROPlot Picture Database Project resources.3bmoodle.dk in relation
to Associate Professor Nicolai Winther-Nielsen’s EU-project [http://www.eplot.eu].
Positions of Trust, Honours and Awards
1990 – Board member of the Danish Society for Biblical Archaeology
1993 – 2001 Board member of Kristelig Forbund for Studerende (IFES)
1995 – 1997 Chairman of the Danish Society for Biblical Archaeology
1996 – 1998 Deputy chairman of Kristelig Forbund for Studerende (IFES)
2000 – 2008 Elder and (unsalaried) pastor in Københavnerkirken (Copenhagener Church)
2004 – 2011 Editor-in-Chief of Hiphil [www.hiphil.net]
2004 – Panel member of Kristelig Dagblad’s Panel on Religion
2005 Appointed Theologian of the Year by Lutheran School of Theology in Aarhus
2005 Invited author in a discussion on the Yahoo Biblical-Studies discussion list run by Niels
Peter Lemche and Jim West.
2005 – Peer Reviewer for Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary (JAAS)
2006 – Member of the Steering Committee of the ETS Old Testament Narrative Books Section
2011 – External Academic Consultant for the Malagassy Lutheran Church’s Theological Faculty
in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
2010 – Editor-in-Chief for Scandinavian Evangelical e-Journal (SEE-J) [www.see-j.net]
2012 – Peer Reviewer for Theofilos [www.theofilos.nu]
2013 Guest editor of the launching volume of Hiphil Novum [www.hiphil.org]
Membership of Learned Societies
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)
Facharbeits Gruppe Altes Testament (FAGAT) der Arbeitsgemeindschaft für Evangelikale Theologie (AfET)
American School of Oriental Research (ASOR)
Institute for Biblical Research (IBR)
The Hellsjö Network (Lutheran School of Theology in Aarhus, Fjellhaug International University College, Theological Institute of Finland, Lutheran School of Theology in Gothenburg, Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology).