Einar Thomassen

Einar Thomassen is a Norwegian Professor in Religious Studies (aka History of Religions aka Religionswissenschaft) at the University of Bergen, he also has a position as an adjunct professor at The University of Aarhus.

Thomassen was born in 1951 in Bergen, and grew up in Laksevåg. He was taught Coptic, Greek and Latin already during high-school (Bergen Katedralskole). He studied in Sweden, France, and Scotland, and lectured in Oslo. He now lives in Bønes with his wife, whom he met while studying Religious Studies in the 1970s. They have two sons. He is Mag. art (University of Bergen), and Ph.D. (University of St. Andrews).

Einar Thomassen lectures in Christianity, Islam, Religion of the Antique and Classical World, pre-Islamic Middle-East, Syncretism) and Method.

elected Writings in English

*The tripartite tractate from Nag Hammadi (Thomassen 1982)
*The Platonic and the Gnostic "Demiurge" (Thomassen 1993)
*The Letters of Ahmad Ibn Idris (Thomassen 1993)
*Musings on "syncretism" (Thomassen 2004)
*Religious education in a pluralistic society : experiences from Norway (Thomassen 2006)
*The spiritual seed : the church of the "Valentinians" (Thomassen 2006)Thomassen has contributed to and translated several works on the subjects below.

Academic interests

Main interests: Valentinianism, Philology and Hermeneutic. Other interests are Coptology, Gnosticism, the Nag Hammadi library, Late Hellenic Philosophy, Sufism, heresy and orthodoxy, ritual theory.

ources

http://www.hf.uib.no/i/religion/tilsette/thomassen.html
http://www.ba.no/puls/article2046817.ece

ee also

List of religion scholars.