Background
SARBO, Magne was born on January 23, 1929 in Fjelberg. Son of Samson Saebo and Malla Olfaemes.
professor of Old Testament theology
SARBO, Magne was born on January 23, 1929 in Fjelberg. Son of Samson Saebo and Malla Olfaemes.
Free Faculty of Theology, Oslo, University of Oslo. Old Testament and Semitic language in Jerusalem, Kiel and Heidelberg.
Teacher of Biblical Hebrew, University of Oslo 1961-1970. Lecturer in Old Testament, Free Faculty of Theology (Church of Norway) 1969-1970, Professor since 1970, Dean 1975-1977, 1988-1990. Chairman Old Testament Translator.
Committee 1968-1978, General Translator.
Committee 1978-1991; Chairman Norwegian Israel Mission 1978-1987. Chairman Lutheran European Commission, on the Church and the Jewish People, Hanover 1979-1982.
Board Norwegian Bible Society since 1965. WCC Consultation on the Church and the Jewish People 1976-1981. Royal Society of Science and Letters, Trondheim, Norwegian Academy, of Science and Letters, Oslo, Nathan Soderblom Society, Uppsala.
Married Mona Uni Bjomstad in 1953.