List of Faculty

Terry Ball

Dr. Ball is a Professor of Ancient Scripture and is currently the Dean of Religious Education at BYU. Although Dr. Ball teaches many classes including Book of Mormon, and New Testament, his recent Ancient Scripture research has focused primarily on the prophet Isaiah. His thorough mastering of Biblical Hebrew is vital to his understanding and teaching.
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Dan Belnap

Dr. Belnap received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago and currently teaches classes in Book of Mormon, Old Testament, New Testament and many others. Dr. Belnap's specialty is in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic studies, and Ritual studies.
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Taylor Halverson

Dr. Halverson received a B.A. from Brigham Young University in Near Eastern Studies in 1997. He then went on to earn an M.A. in Biblical Studies from Yale University in 2001 and an M.S. in Instructional Technology from Indiana University in 2004. He achieved Ph.D.s in Instructional Systems Technology and Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity—both from Indiana University in 2006.
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Paul Hoskisson

Dr. Hoskisson is a professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University and is currently the director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis and has taught at BYU since 1981.
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Jared Ludlow

Dr. Jared Ludlow received his Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley and has taught at both BYU Hawaii and now at BYU Provo. He teaches classes on the New Testament, Old Testament, Book of Mormon and others. His abilities in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and German inform his teaching.
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Victor Ludlow

Dr. Victor Ludlow is a scholar of Isaiah and Judaism. He graduated with high honors from BYU and was a Danforth Fellow at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, where he received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. He currently teaches Writings of Isaiah, Judaism and the Gospel, Book of Mormon, and Old Testament and uses his vast language skills as he teaches and researches. He knows German, Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Latin.
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Kerry Muhlestein

Dr. Muhlestein received his B.S. cum laude from BYU in Psychology with a Hebrew minor. After completing his undergraduate degree, Dr. Muhlestein received an M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from BYU and then his Ph.D., graduating, from UCLA in Egyptology. Dr. Muhlestein is proficient is many languages, both ancient and modern, including Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Moabite, Coptic, German, French, Greek and Akkadian.
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Donald Parry

Dr. Parry is Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) at Brigham Young University and has served as a member of the International Team of Translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls since 1994.
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Dana Pike

Dr. Pike is currently the Coordinator of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies major at BYU and has taught at BYU since 1992. He has worked extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls publishing all of the Unidentified Fragments found in Cave 4. He teaches Old Testament, New Testament and Ancient Near Eastern classes.
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Stephen Ricks

Dr. Ricks completed his B.A. in Ancient Greek and M.A. in the Classics at Brigham Young University, and then received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union. He is now professor of Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Brigham Young University where he has been a member of the faculty nearly thirty years.
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David Rolph Seely

Dr. David Rolph Seely currently enjoys teaching as Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He has diligently studied many languages in order to enhance his scholarship. These include Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Aramaic and Akkadian. Dr. Seely focuses his research on the Book of Mormon, Biblical Studies, Classical History and Languages, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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