Adjunct Faculty (Old Testament)

About

Mason works as a software engineer by day and an Old Testament professor by night. He loves working with students to uncover the riches of God's Word through the Old Testament. At Pacific he teaches courses such as Psalms and Hermeneutics. Outside of Pacific Seminary, he relishes those rare moments when he can go for a bike ride.

Education
PhD, Wheaton College
ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
MDiv, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
BS, UC San Diego

Recent Work
Mason D. Lancaster and Beth Stovell, Hosea, The Bible in God's Word (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025), forthcoming

"Metaphors in the Book of Hosea," Oxford Handbook of Hosea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), forthcoming

Hosea’s God: A Metaphorical Theology, SBLAIL 48 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023)

“Metaphor Research and the Hebrew Bible,” Currents in Biblical Research 19, no. 3 (2021): 235–85, https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X20987952

“Wounds and Healing, Dew and Lions: Hosea’s Development of Divine Metaphors,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 83 (2021): 407–24

Mason D. Lancaster and Adam E. Miglio, “Lord of the Storm and Oracular Decisions: Competing Construals of Storm God Imagery in Hosea 6:1–6,” Vetus Testamentum 70 (2020): 634–44, https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341417.