Dr. Jeffrey H. Pulse

Dr. Pulse joined the Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), Fort Wayne, faculty in 2007. He serves as the Dean O. Wenthe Professor of Old Testament Theology, Director of Certification and Placement, and Director of Continuing Education.

Following graduation from Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, with a BS in elementary education (1980), he attended CTSFW, completing his MDiv in 1984 and later completing his STM from CTSFW while in the parish in 1990. He completed his PhD at the University of Durham, England, in 2017 in the area of Old Testament, successfully defending his dissertation “Joseph: A Death and Resurrection Figure in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism.”

He served his twenty-two years in the parish at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Burt, Iowa, and Peace Lutheran Church, Bremerton, Washington.