Dr. Steven D. Mason

 

Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
E-mail: StevenMason@letu.edu
Phone: (903)233-3375

• Pentateuch, Poetical Books, Pre-Exilic Prophets, Exilic and Post-Exilic Prophets, Biblical Covenants, Biblical Hebrew I and II, Romans, Biblical Foundations, Catholic Epistles, Advanced Hermeneutics, Biblical Worldview  

Education

• B.B.A, Baylor University (1998). Major: Finance
• Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary (2002).  Concentration: New Testament
• Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Scotland (2006).  Old Testament Studies.  Dissertation: “The Contours of an Elusive Phrase: Berit Olam and Some Contributions to Covenant Theology in the Pentateuch”

Publications and Presentations

• Eternal Covenant in the Pentateuch: The Contours of an Elusive Phrase (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. 494. New York: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2008).

• “Another Flood? Genesis 9 and Isaiah’s Broken Eternal Covenant” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32 (2007): 177-97.
• “Richard C. Chewning: Model and Mentor of Business and Faith Integration.” Journal of Biblical Integration in Business (forthcoming Winter, 2009).

   

• “The Exodus in Light of Canonical and Theological Interpretation: Interpretation Trumps Criticism” in edited volume entitled Evangelicals and Historical Criticism: Fresh Thoughts and Approaches (forthcoming 2011).
• “The Theology of Work in Ezekiel” in edited volume entitled Theology of Work in the Bible (published by Gordon Conwell Seminary). http://www.theologyofwork.com/home/index.cfm
• “ Understanding Holistic Christian Mission, ” Part I of the essay Holistic Christian Mission and an Old Testament Paradigm: L.E.G.S. and LeTourneau University’s Call to a Servant’s Work. Published on the LEGS website.  http://www.legsresearch.org/
• “Isaiah 61 in Context as a an Old Testament Paradigm for Holistic Christian Mission,” Part II of the essay Holistic Christian Mission and an Old Testament Paradigm: L.E.G.S. and LeTourneau University’s Call to a Servant’s Work. Published on the LEGS website.  http://www.legsresearch.org/  

• Thirty-two Old Testament articles for Abingdon Press’ new multi-volume New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, (published and forthcoming in 2006-9).
• “Pentateuch” and “The Book of the Twelve” in Baker Academic’s New Dictionary of the Bible. (forthcoming 2010)

• Several book reviews published in the journals such as Review of Biblical Literature, Ashland Theological Journal, Themelios, and Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology.

• “The Relationship of Berit Olam to Berit Am in Second Isaiah: Covenant Reward for Covenant Death,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2009.
• “Ezekiel Actually Has Something To Say: An Old Prophet’s Insights on a Christian’s Call to the Workplace,” International Institute for Christian Studies Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, July 2009.
• “Richard C. Chewning: Model & Mentor of Business and Faith Integration,” International Institute for Christian Studies Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, July 2009.
• “Isaiah 24 and the Conditional Noachic Eternal Covenant,” Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, November 2005.
• “Servants Called to Righteousness: 1 Peter’s Isaianic Message,” Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2004
• “Servants Called to Righteousness: 1 Peter’s Isaianic Message,” The Annual Seminar on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, April 1-3rd 2004, St. Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, NorthWales CH5 3DF. 

• Society of Biblical Literature
• Institute for Biblical Research
• Evangelical Theological Society

Personal Statement

“My wife and I are delighted to have been called to serve LeTourneau University, an institution which unites academic excellence and spiritual formation within a distinctly Christian environment.  As a student I greatly benefited from personal relationships with professors who shared their lives with me and quickly became spiritual mentors and models of the Christian faith.  These individuals not only instilled biblical knowledge, but also biblical wisdom.  I hope to do the same for my students, and in turn, be mutually strengthened in our walks and encouraged towards love and good deeds.”