Terence Fretheim was first connected with the
Luther Seminary faculty as a teaching fellow in Greek in 1958-60 while he was still a seminary student. He returned as assistant professor in 1968 and became professor of Old Testament in 1978. He was dean of academic affairs (1978–88) and also served as acting chair of the Old Testament department (1977–78) and chair of the curriculum committee (1976–77). He was an instructor in Old Testament at Augsburg College and Seminary, Minneapolis, in 1961–63, and assistant professor of religion at Augsburg College in 1967–68. Ordained in 1968, Fretheim was pastor of Dennison (Minn.) Lutheran Church in 1968–71. He has been visiting professor at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and both visiting professor and lecturer at the
University of Chicago Divinity School. Fretheim received the Fulbright Scholarship for study in England, the Lutheran Brotherhood Seminary Graduate Scholarship, the Martin Luther Scholarship, the Fredrik A. Schiotz Fellowship Award, and the ATS Scholarship for Theological Research. A graduate of
Luther College (Iowa) (B.A., 1956), Fretheim earned the M.Div. degree from Luther Seminary in 1960 and the Th.D. degree from Princeton Seminary in 1967. He has also studied at the University of Durham, England, the University of Minnesota, the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Oxford University in England, and the University of Chicago. As a Luther College alumnus, he was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa in 1995. He was a member of the
Catholic Biblical Association and the
Society of Biblical Literature and was Editor of SBL Old Testament Monographs. He served on the Buddhist and Muslim Task Forces of the American Lutheran Church, was co-chair of the Theological Consultation for the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has been president of the Minnesota Consortium of Theological Schools, and Old Testament Book Editor for the Journal of Biblical Literature. Terence Fretheim died on November 16, 2020. == Works Published ==