Torrey Seland Doctor Artium, University of Trondheim 1991. Professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of Faculty of Social Science at Volda University College, Volda Norway. He is Professor of New Testament Studies at The School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway and the author of Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke (Brill: 1995), and co-editor of Neotestamentica et Philonica (Brill, 2003). Currently, he is working on aspects of the ancient social world as understood by Philo.