Mark A Throntveit
Professor of Old Testament

Mark A ThrontveitEmail:
mthrontv@luthersem.edu

Personal Website:
http://www.luthersem.edu/mthrontv/

Office:
651-641-3272    GH 106

Curriculum Vitae for Mark A Throntveit

Courses:

LG 1100 01 HEBREW Summer Session 2013-2014
LG 4125 01 HEBREW READING Summer Session 2013-2014
LG 4125 01 HEBREW READING Spring 2013-2014
OT 2118 01 PROPHETS- ELIJAH AND ELISHA Spring 2013-2014
LG 1100 01 HEBREW Fall 2013-2014
OT 1110 01 PENTATEUCH Fall 2013-2014
LG 1100 01 HEBREW Summer Session 2012-2013

Speaking Topics:

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
  • 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
  • So...How Does Jesus Save Us Anyway? (Atonement)
  • The Duh-Vinci Code
  • Troubling Parables
  • Voices in the Pentateuch
  • What Would Moses Do? (10 Commandments)

Education:

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

Biography:

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 University from 1991-1998.

He was a teaching fellow in Hebrew at Union Theological Seminary in 1979-81, and had

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Profile:

"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 Testament texts, as well. "For example, in good Hebrew style, key words are repeated again and again to emphasize the [more...]

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