Donald Harrisville Juel (March 4, 1942 – February 23, 2003) was an American educator and

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scholar. Donald Harrisville Juel was born in

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. His education included B.A. from St. Olaf College (1964), B.D. from

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(1968), and Ph.D. in New Testament from

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(1973). He was Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Theology at

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from 1995 until his death. He had previously taught at Indiana University (1972–1974) and had served as Professor of New Testament at

(1978 to 1995). Juel was a member of the Society for the Study of the New Testament and the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2005, a ''

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'' was published in his memory. Edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Patrick D. Miller, ''The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God'' consists of reflections on and responses to an article that Juel had written on the ending of Mark's gospel.(Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. )

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