Mark Throntveit received a B.A. from Saint Olaf College, an M.Div. from Luther Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He also served pastorates in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and Richmond, Virginia, before joining the faculty of Luther Theological Seminary in 1981, where he taught Hebrew and Old Testament for forty years. In 2013, he was appointed to the Elva B. Lovell Chair of Old Testament Studies. In addition to his teaching and scholarly work, especially in the historical books, he served for many years as book editor for Word & World, the seminary’s quarterly journal.

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