Mark A. Throntveit
Professor of Old Testament  

Email: mthrontv@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/mthrontv/ Office: (651) 641-3272    Office: GH 106 Sabbatical (7/1/2009-6/30/2010)

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
LG 1100	HEBREW	Summer Session 2008-2009
LG 4125	HEBREW READING	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 2118	PROPHETS: ELIJAH AND ELISHA	Spring Semester 2008-2009
LG 1100 01	HEBREW	Fall Semester 2008-2009
LG 1102	HEBREW - READING	Fall Semester 2008-2009
OT 1110 01	PENTATEUCH	Fall Semester 2008-2009

Mark A. Throntveit 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

• Bible Translations: Which Ones Shall We Use?
• Elijah and Elisha
• Excuses, Excuses, Excuses...Moses, the Burning Bush, and God's Call
• Genesis One: Creation as Relation
• Genesis: Plan, Peril, and Promise
• Genesis: Sunday School Stories or Soap Opera?
• Jesus, Justice, and the Prophets (1-6 sessions)
• Job and the Problem of Evil
• Old Testament Prophecy
• Plagues, Passover, and the Passion of Christ (Lent)
• Psalm 23: The Lord is My...?
• Psalms: Songs in the Center of Life (1-6 sessions)
• So...How Does Jesus Save Us Anyway? (Atonement)
• The Duh-Vinci Code
• Troubling Parables
• Voices in the Pentateuch
• What Would Moses Do? (10 Commandments)

Activities:
		SBL Regional Director, Society of Biblical Literature Host of Upper Midwest AAR/SBL Regional Meeting

View a detailed curriculum vitae for Mark A. Throntveit here. This includes education, professional positions, activities, memberships and publications.

Ph.D.	Union Theological Seminary Richmond, VA	1982
Ordained	ELCA	1975
M.Div.	Luther Theological Seminary St. Paul, MN	1975
B.A.	St. Olaf College Northfield, MN	1971

Mark Throntveit joined the Luther Seminary faculty in 1981 and was named associate professor of Old Testament in 1987. He was promoted to full professor in 1996. He was adjunct professor of Bible at Augsburg College in the spring of 1991 and adjunct professor of Old Testament at St. Thomas [more...]

"Our goal is to keep pastors informed of scholarship that can help them in their day-to-day work."

Mark Throntveit has one goal in mind when he is teaching Hebrew: to help students understand the original language of the Old Testament. Hebrew helps him teach the interpretation of Old [more...]

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