Richard W. Nysse
Professor of Old Testament  

Email: rnysse@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/rnysse Office: (651) 641-3454    Office: GH 202

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
LG 1100	HEBREW	Summer Session 2009-2010
OT 2116 50	PROPHETS: A SURVEY-ONLINE	Spring Semester 2009-2010
OT 1110 50	PENTATEUCH - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
OT 2112	PROPHETS: JEREMIAH	Fall Semester 2009-2010
OT 2112 P1 50	PRECEPT 1 - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
OT 2112 P2 50	PRECEPT 2 - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
OT 6198 97 99	IS:READING THE CONQUEST IN WAKE OF	Fall Semester 2009-2010
OT 2116 50	PROPHETS: A SURVEY - ONLINE	Summer Session 2008-2009
OT 1110 02	PENTATEUCH	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 1110 02 P1	PRECEPT 1 - ONLINE	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 1110 02 P2	PRECEPT 2 - ONLINE	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 2116 50	PROPHETS: A SURVEY-ONLINE	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 4155 F6	TOPICS IN OLD TESTAMENT STUDY	Spring Semester 2008-2009
OT 1110 50	PENTATEUCH - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2008-2009
OT 3110 S6	PSALMS	Fall Semester 2008-2009
OT 4135 F6	POPULAR CULTURE TEXTS & THE OLD TES	Fall Semester 2008-2009

Richard W. Nysse 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

• Creation in Biblical Hymns
• Daniel
• God and War in the Old Testament
• Law and Gospel: Old Testament Perprectives
• Psalm 23
• Songs of Pain and Songs of Praise: The Psalms and Country Music.
• The Biblical Text: Which Bible is Best?
• The Commandments in Biblical Perspective
• The Dark Side of God in the Bible
• The Experience of Exile and Restoration: Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

Publications:
		Play to Learn
		Technology and the Classroom: Inevitable and Better

View a detailed curriculum vitae for Richard W. Nysse here. This includes education, professional positions, activities, memberships and publications.

Th.D.	Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA	1984
Ordained	ELCA	1974
M.Div.	Concordia Theological Seminary St. Louis, MO	1972
B.A.	Concordia Senior College Fort Wayne, IN	1968

Richard Nysse was called to be assistant professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in 1978 and was named professor in 1993. He served as assistant pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Belmont, Mass., for two years following ordination in 1974. Nysse has twice been book editor of World & [more...]

“ If Christ is risen, then He’s in the classroom. And so it’s appropriate to ask, ‘what has God done here in the last 50 minutes?’”

Richard Nysse once sat in a meeting of pastors during which one of the attendees kept asking, “What is God doing here?” The [more...]

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