Biography

Scott Morschauser has been at Rowan since 1994.  He is Professor of Ancient and Medieval History.  He teaches courses in Western Civilization, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Roman Principiate, The Search for the Historical Jesus, the Medieval World, and the Crusades.  He regularly teaches Historical Methods, along with the graduate courses, Readings and Research I, and Cultural History.

Dr. Morschauser is the author of the book, Threat-Formulae in Ancient Egypt (1991), and co-editor of Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry (1985).  Over thirty of his articles have been published in professional journals, reference dictionaries, and encyclopedias dealing with Ancient Egypt and Biblical history.

He received his MA (1981) and Ph.D. (1987) from the Johns Hopkins University in Ancient Near Eastern Studies.  He graduated from Gettysburg College (1977) with a BA in Ancient Greek and Religion.  He also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary (1991), and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA.  Scott was pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Haddon Heights, NJ for eleven years, and is a pulpit-supply preacher in the West Jersey Presbytery.

Dr. Morschauser taught at Johns Hopkins and Princeton Seminary as an Instructor in Ancient Egyptian.  He was a member of the Johns Hopkins excavation at Tel-el-Retaba in 1981.

Two forthcoming articles are “Conspiracy, Concealment, and Covenant: Loyalty Oaths, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament,” in a volume for Oxford University Press, edited by Susan Hollis; and “`Seeing You Have Not Withheld Your Son’:  An Overlooked Motif in Genesis 22?”  for the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.  

Recent articles include, "War Cry or War Atrocity?  Sinuhe's Defeat of the `Hero" of Retenu,"  The Journal of Egyptian Archeology 105 (2019);  "`A Surge of Eight Cubits' and Political Tsunamis: A Note on the Shipwrecked Sailor," Göttinger Miszellen 244 (2015), 101-106.

He is currently working on a translation and commentary on the ancient Egyptian text, The Story of Sinuhe