Oskar Skarsaune (born 2 July 1946, in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

) is professor of

church history __NOTOC__ Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception. Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual ...

MF Norwegian School of Theology MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society ( no, MF vitenskapelig høyskole for teologi, religion og samfunn), formerly the Free Faculty of Theology ( no, Det teologiske menighetsfakultet) and MF Norwegian School of Theology, is an accr ...

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. Skarsaune's major work on

Justin Martyr Justin Martyr ( el, Ἰουστῖνος ὁ μάρτυς, Ioustinos ho martys; c. AD 100 – c. AD 165), also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and ...

, ''The Proof from Prophecy. A Study in Justin Martyr's Proof-Text Tradition: Text-Type, Provenance, Theological Profile'' is frequently cited. His study calls for a revision in views of accounts of Justin's conversion. Skarsaune is also editor of and contributor to ''The History of Jewish Believers in Jesus from Antiquity to the Present'', which includes his study of the

Ebionite Ebionites ( grc-gre, Ἐβιωναῖοι, ''Ebionaioi'', derived from Hebrew (or ) ''ebyonim'', ''ebionim'', meaning 'the poor' or 'poor ones') as a term refers to a Jewish Christian sect, which viewed poverty as a blessing, that existed durin ...

s – whom Skarsaune argued made a central claim of the parentage of Joseph, and against the

virgin birth of Jesus The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. It is mentioned only in and , and the modern scholarly consensus is that the ...

. Skarsaune has close ties to the

Messianic Jewish Messianic Judaism ( he, or , ) is a modernist and syncretic movement of Protestant Christianity that incorporates some elements of Judaism and other Jewish traditions into evangelicalism. It emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier ...

community in Israel and invited their contribution to the project.''Pro ecclesia'' vol.14 American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology – 2005 "... a number of distinguished New Testament scholars have contributed to the forthcoming multivolume work The History of Jewish Believers in Jesus from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Oskar Skarsaune.46 Skarsaune has close ties to the Messianic community in Israel and has invited Messianic Jewish contribution to the project .47 The work is notable in part because it offers a reassessment of the commonly ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Skarsaune, Oskar 20th-century Norwegian historians 1946 births Writers from Trondheim Living people Academic staff of the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 21st-century Norwegian historians