James L. Boyce
Professor of New Testament  

Email: jboyce@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/jboyce Office: (651) 641-3201    Office: Emeriti Office

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
OG 4000	ONLINE GREEK COURSE CONTINUATION	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2631 50	TRUTH & MEANING: RHET APPR-ONLINE	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OG 4000	ONLINE GREEK COURSE CONTINUATION	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OG 4000	ONLINE GREEK COURSE CONTINUATION	Fall Semester 2008-2009

James L. Boyce is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics. For other faculty and staff resources, visit our Online Resource Guide

• Arab and Jew in the Holy Land
• Archeology and the Bible/ Archeology in the Holy Land
• Bible Study, esp. Matthew, Luke John Acts, Galatians, I Corinthians, James
• Historical Setting and/or Backgrounds of New Testament
• How the Bible Came to Us/Authority and Canon of the Bible
• How? and Why? Reading the Scriptures
• The Holy Land/Jerusalem
• The Shaping of a Reformer: Martin Luther on Romans (1-6 sessions)
• When the Fire Goes Out, What Then? Bible Study on James (1-6 sessions)
• Windows of Faith: The Early Church in its New Testament Setting (1-6 sessions)

Activities:
		Coordinator, Western Mission Cluster, ELCA The Western Mission Cluster is a partnership of Luther Seminary and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary along with other partners in ELCA Regions 1, 2, and 3 who have a commitment to exploring ways of collaboration for  "Life-long learning" for the sake of the church's mission in the world.
Links:
		Internet Links and Sites Listing with links of some useful web sites for Bible Study, Sermon helps, Christian education resources, etc.
		Searching the Internet An example of using search engines and "topics" to find resources for Bible Study and preaching on the internet.
Materials:
		Life & Letters of Paul Introduction to the Life and Letters of Paul: Tentative timeline of life and writings; maps of missionary "journeys"; study outlines of the Pauline epistles.
		Textual Criticism An introduction to the theory and practice of textual criticism of the New Testament through slides and accompanying lecture notes. For further resources, see www.ntgateway.com/textcrit.htm.
Publications:
		Transformed for Disciple Community: Matthew in Pentecost Word & World 13/3 (1993) 308–317. (Texts in Context)

Ph.D.	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC	1974
Ordained	ELCA	1972
M.Div.	Luther Theological Seminary St. Paul, MN	1971
Th.M.	Luther Theological Seminary St. Paul, MN	1966
B.A.	Luther College Decorah, IA	1964

James Boyce came to Luther Seminary as an instructor in New Testament and Greek in 1970 and was promoted to professor in 1987. Earlier, he had been an instructor in Latin at Augsburg (1964-65) and a graduate instructor in classics at North Carolina (1968-70). Ordained in 1972, Boyce was minister [more...]

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James Boyce has one main goal in his New Testament classes: "I want students to have a growing sense of the importance of the Scriptures as the living Word of God in their own lives and [more...]

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