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About Dr. Voelz
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About the Prof.
James W. Voelz is professor of exegetical theology (Biblical interpretation) at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was trained in higher educational institutions of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod to become a Lutheran pastor. He attended college in Milwaukee and in Fort Wayne, Indiana, graduating as valedictorian with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics in 1967. He then received the Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1971, after which he studied with Dr. Martin H. Franzmann at Westfield House, the Lutheran house of studies in Cambridge, England. In 1972 he entered the graduate program in divinity at the University of Cambridge, receiving the PhD degree in New Testament studies in 1978. His dissertation, entitled “Present and Aorist Imperatives and Prohibitions in the New Testament,” was written under the guidance of Prof. Geoffrey Lampe, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University.
Dr. Voelz has taught at the seminary level for 32 years. For the first fourteen he was on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana (during which time he was also assistant pastor at Zion Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana for four years), and since 1989 he has been at Concordia, St. Louis. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature in the United States, and of the international New Testament society, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS). In the former he has been a member of the Literary Aspects of the Gospels and Acts Group and is currently on the steering committee of the Gospel of Mark Group, and in the latter, he has been co-chair of the “Hermeneutics and the Biblical Text” seminar, and is currently co-chair of “The Greek of the New Testament” seminar. His special academic interests are the Greek language, hermeneutics (theory of interpretation), and the Gospel of Mark.
His hobbies are contract bridge, golf, soccer, tennis, and wine. He and his wife, Judy, married in 1977 and have one son.
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