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Central States Region
2008 Regional Meeting Program
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2008 Regional Meeting Registration
Click Here for the 2008 Regional Meeting Registration packet (pdf).

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2007 Regional Meeting Minutes
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2007 Central States Regional Scholar

Eric F. Mason,
Eric F. Mason is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Judson University, Elgin, Illinois, and teaches in the areas of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism. He holds a Ph.D. in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity from the University of Notre Dame, an M.Div. from Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, and a B.A. from Union University. Mason was selected as a Regional Scholar by the Central States Region for his paper titled “Melchizedek in Hebrews and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” and he will present a revised version of the paper at the 2007 Annual Meeting. His monograph on priestly messianism in the Epistle to the Hebrews and Second Temple Jewish literature will be published by Brill, and he is co-editing a Festschrift that will appear in 2008. He is an associate editor for the journal Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity.

Regional Coordinator

Dr. Bradley Chance, Chair
William Jewell College
Box 1143
500 College Hill
Liberty, MO 64068
Phone: 816-415-7555
chanceb@william.jewell.edu

Additional Information

To apply to be a Regional Scholar, contact:
Dr. Victor Matthews
Missouri State University
VictorMatthews@MissouriState.edu

 

 
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