William W. Grasham

Dr. William W. Grasham has been preaching for over sixty years in Texas, California, Arizona, Germany, and Scotland. He received a B.A. in 1962 and an M.A. in 1968 from Pepperdine University and the M.Div. from Abilene Christian University in 1975. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, upon completion of a dissertation that examined the nature of the Qumran community, the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. From 1975 to 1978, Grasham and his family lived in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he preached for an American military congregation. Then they moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, so he could continue his education. While there, they helped to establish a local congregation of the Lord’s church. Grasham did post-doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also participated in archaeological digs at Tel Dor in Israel. For over fifteen years, he taught Old and New Testament and Biblical Theology courses at the Center for Christian Education in Dallas, Texas. He retired in 2005 but continued to present seminars for graduate students on the Bible and archaeology and on the gospel in the Old Testament.