Education

• Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary)
• Ordained (ELCA)
• M.Div. (Luther Theological Seminary)

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 been a teaching assistant in New Testament exegesis at the Presbyterian School for Christian Education in 1979-80.

Ordained in 1975, Throntveit was associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Whitewater, Wis., until 1978.

He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, where he has been a member of the steering committee for the Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah consultation (1984-1986), group (1986-91), and section (1991-present). He continues as Regional Coordinator of the Upper Midwest Region, a position he has held since 1996.

Throntveit received a B.A. degree with departmental honors in religion from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., in 1971. He received an AAL scholarship to attend Luther Seminary where he earned the M.Div. degree and the G.M. and Minnie Bruce Award in New Testament in 1975. He received the James A. Jones Memorial Fellowship for study at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1982. He has also studied at Cambridge in England.

His books include: The NIV Learning Bible, (The American Bible Society.2003); “1 & 2 Chronicles,” The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, (Abingdon, 2003);  “1 & 2 Chronicles,” Harper’s Bible Commentary, (HarperCollins, 2000); The CEV Learning Bible, (The American Bible Society, 2000); Ezra-Nehemiah, Interpretation Commentaries (1992); Exploring the Yearly Lectionary Series A (1991) and When Kings Speak: Royal Speech and Royal Prayer in Chronicles (1987).