Steve Delamarter

Professor of Old Testament, George Fox Evangelical Seminary

B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1975
M.A.R., Western Evangelical Seminary, 1979
M.Div., Western Evangelical Seminary, 1979
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1990

An Old Testament scholar and a theological educator since 1979, Delamarter has facilitated learning in several Christian colleges and seminaries. Since 1993 he has been professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary (GFES) in Portland, Oregon. A fellow of the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Religion(‘03-’05), Delamarter has an interest in the integration of science and faith and teaches a course on “Cosmology and Spiritual Formation.” He and his wife, Beth Habecker, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health and Sciences University, give presentations on “DNA and the Place of Humans in the Created Order.” In addition to being an amateur astronomer, Delamarter is an amateur musician, and has a small recording studio in his home. In recent years his research interests have focused on the digitization and cataloguing of more than 600 Ethiopic manuscripts that have come to North America.