James L. Boyce
Professor of New Testament
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN
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 (196465) and a graduate instructor in classics at North Carolina (196870).
Ordained in 1972, Boyce was minister of education at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, in 197477 and copastor in 197779 during a parish leave from the seminary. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Philological Association.
He was acting editor of Word & World in 1990-91 and was associate editor in 1993-94. He has also been involved in leading students on archeological digs in Israel since 1980.
A graduate of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, he received the M.Div. degree from Luther Seminary in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree from North Carolina in 1974.
He is a cotranslator of Mark the Evangelist by Willi Marxsen. Boyce is noted on campus as a resident expert in word processing.