Joshua M. Matson

Joshua M. Matson is a scholar of the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls and an assistant professor in ancient scripture at Brigham Young University with an appointment to the Jerusalem Center. A former teacher with Seminaries and Institutes of Religion, Josh holds a PhD in religion from Florida State University, an MA in biblical studies from Trinity Western University, and a BA with university honors in ancient Near Eastern studies from BYU. Josh’s work on the Dead Sea Scrolls includes time as a research associate with the Scripta Qumranica Electronica project at the University of Haifa and an Orion Center Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.