Introduction
William D. Mounce (born 17 February 1953) is a scholar of New Testament Greek.
William Mounce is the son of Robert H. Mounce (also a Greek scholar, also on the ESV committee). He lives as a writer in Washougal, Washington. He is the President of BiblicalTraining, a non-profit organization offering educational resources for discipleship in the local church. He also runs Teknia, a site committed to helping people learn biblical Greek. At his personal site, he writes three blogs.
- Monday with Mounce discusses issues of Greek translation
- Life as a Journey covers spiritual issues specifically connected to new Christians
- Bill and Bob's Blog is for various topics, written by Bill and his dad
He was a preaching pastor at a church in Spokane, WA, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also taught at Azusa Pacific University for ten years. Bill 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.[1]. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and is serving on the NIV translation committee. Bill and Robin have been married since 1983 and have three children.
Education
- Ph.D. 1981, in New Testament. Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland.
- M.A. 1977, in Biblical Studies. Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.
- B.A. 1975, in Biblical Studies, minor in Greek. Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota; Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1971-74.