Professor Alan Segal was Nils A. Dahl’s student at Yale and is an internationally renowned history of religion scholar with an emphasis on Jewish-Christian relations.
Among his books are Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism, 1977; Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman world, 1986; Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee, 1990.
His latest book, Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West, 2004, got much praise and also created much discussion and controversy.
Nils Alstrup Dahl (1911-2001) was one of the most influential theologians Norway has fostered in the 20th Century. The Faculty of Theology has instituted a Dahl-lecture to promote theological research within the scope of Dahl’s research by inviting internationally renowned researchers to the University of Oslo.