Hicks, John Harden

Professor John Harden Hicks was born in Stephenville, Texas, on February 10, 1887. He studied at Southwestern University (A.B., 1911), Vanderbilt University (B.D., 1913), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1933). A prominent Old Testament scholar, Dr. Hicks published numerous articles, one booklet: The Scholia of Barhebraeus on the Book of Isaiah (1935), and one book: The Books of History (1947). He was a member of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, the Society of Old Testament Study, Chi Alpha, and Theta Phi.

John Harden Hicks joined the Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1915. He was ordained a Deacon in 1917 and an Elder in 1919. Between 1915 and 1922 he served Methodist churches in Ochiltree, Amarillo (Buchanan Street Church), Hedley, Snyder, and Canyon, Texas.

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