Brisco named Logsdon dean_71403

Posted: 7/11/03

Brisco named Logsdon dean

By Jenny Hartgraves

Staff Writer

ABILENE–Tommy Brisco, Baylor University religion professor, has been named dean of Hardin-Simmons University's Logsdon School of Theology.

He will succeed Vernon Davis, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

Brisco, a native of Hot Springs, Ark., taught master's and doctorate courses for Baylor's religion department the last two years. He has an extensive history at Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary in Fort Worth, where he taught biblical backgrounds and archaelogy from 1980 to 2001 and served as associate dean for special master's degrees and doctor of philosophy degrees from 1996 to 2000. He also taught at his alma mater, Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark.

Brisco received the doctor of philosophy degree at Southwestern Seminary in 1981 and the master of divinity in 1973.

He served as pastor at First Baptist Church of Meunster and Crenshaw Baptist Church in Crenshaw, Miss.

Brisco is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles. His “Holman Bible Atlas,” received the Gold Medallion Book Award for a reference work from the Evangelical Christian Publisher's Association in 2000. Some of his other works include articles in “Encyclopedia of the Ancient World” and articles in “Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible.”

Brisco has years of archaeological field experience and has served as a lecturer in Israel, the Middle East and Turkey. He assisted in the development and administration of the archaeological expedition at Tel Batash, Israel, and he has served as archaeological consultant for the Biblical Illustrator, collecting visual materials throughout the Middle East and Italy for publications.

Brisco and his wife, Judy, have a grown daughter and son.