William D. Mounce | |
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Born | Pasadena, California | February 17, 1953
Occupation | New Testament Greek scholar |
Title | Former professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
Spouse | Robin |
Children | Three children |
Academic background | |
Education |
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Alma mater | Aberdeen University (PhD) |
Thesis | (1981) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | New Testament Greek studies |
Institutions | Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
Notable works | Basics of Biblical Greek |
Website | billmounce.com |
William D. Mounce (born 17 February 1953) is an American scholar of New Testament Greek. He has also worked as an author,teacher and preacher.
Mounce taught at Azusa Pacific University for ten years. He then worked as a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also worked as a preaching pastor at a church in Spokane,WA.
He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible,and serves on the NIV translation committee. [1]
He is the founder and president of Biblical Training,a non-profit organization offering educational resources for discipleship in the local church. At his personal site,he also writes blogs including Monday with Mounce and Greek Word for the Day.
Mounce authored the bestselling Greek textbook,Basics of Biblical Greek,which won a 2003 Reader's Preference Editor's Choice Award in the Sacred Texts category. [2] Archived 2006-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
William Mounce is the son of the noted scholar Robert H. Mounce.
He has been married to Robin since 1983 and they have three adult children. [3]
William and Robin live in Ione,Washington.
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