Biography
Hoffmann received theological degrees (M.T.S. and Th.M.) from Harvard Divinity School and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, submitting his thesis on the heretic Marcion in 1982. Following a year as senior scholar at St Cross College, Oxford in 1980, Hoffmann served during the 1980s as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. From 1989 to 1991 he was a professor of humanities at California State University, Sacramento. He also taught at the American University of Beirut, Westminster College in Oxford, and Africa University in Zimbabwe. Hoffmann later became a visiting professor of religion at Wells College, and Robert and Henrietta Campbell Professor of Religion in 2004.
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