Tryggve Mettinger
Swedish biblical scholar
Tryggve Mettinger (8 June 1940 in Helsingborg – 23 October 2023) was a professor of Hebrew Bible, at Lund University, Sweden, where he taught from 1978 to 2003.
Life and work
Between 1960 and 1978, Mettinger studied various subjects, such as Semitics, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Comparative Literature, at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen. He later earned his doctorate in 1971, worked as docent (Reader) of Old Testament exegesis, and subsequently was appointed professor at Lund University, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 2003. He had visiting professor positions in the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He was awarded the Thuréus prize (humanities) 2008 by the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Societeten in Uppsala. Between 1978 and 2003, he was one of the editors of the monograph series Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series. Mettinger served as an expert consultant for the official Swedish Bible translation committee, whose work led to the creation of the Bibel 2000 translation. He was a member of various learned societies, such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm and the (British) Society for Old Testament Study (honorary member). He had also been a guest lecturer at many universities and delivered papers at many conferences devoted to Old Testament study, Assyriology and Comparative Religion.
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