Hans Magnus Barstad (7 June 1947 – 26 August 2020) was a Norwegian theologian. He was born in

Åsnes Åsnes is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest village in the municipality with around 1 ...

, and took the dr. theol. degree in 1982 on the thesis ''The Religious Polemics of Amos. Studies in the Preaching of Amos'', which was published in 1984. From 1986 he was a professor of theology at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

, specializing in

Old Testament prophets Nevi'im (; he, נְבִיאִים ''Nəvīʾīm'', Tiberian: ''Năḇīʾīm,'' "Prophets", literally "spokespersons") is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the ''Tanakh''), lying between the Torah (instruction) and Ketuvim (wri ...

. Barstad was a fellow of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

and from 1998 to 2000 its secretary-general. He was also chairman of the board of the

University Library of Oslo The University of Oslo Library ( no, Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, UBO) is a library connected to the University of Oslo. Like the university, it was established in 1811 with Georg Sverdrup as the first head librarian. It originally doubled as ...

from 1988 to 1992 and the Norwegian Old Testament Society from 1992 to 1994. He died in August 2020, aged 73, in

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1947 births 2020 deaths People from Åsnes Norwegian theologians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norwegian expatriates in Spain Presidents of the Society for Old Testament Study {{Norway-academic-bio-stub