Michael S. Heiser: Difference between revisions

Heiser was born on February 14, 1963,<ref>{{cite web | author = Logos Staff|url=https://www.logos.com/grow/michael-heiser-passing/ |title=Michael Heiser (February 14, 1963 – February 20, 2023) |date=February 2023 |access-date=February 21, 2023}}</ref> and raised in Lebanon, [[Pennsylvania]]. He received an MA in Ancient History from the [[University of Pennsylvania]], and an MA and PhD in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[Semitic Languages]] from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] (with a minor in [[Classical antiquity|Classical]] studies).<ref>{{cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |url=http://drmsh.com/about-michael-s-heiser/ |title=About |date=February 2014 |access-date=June 16, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |url=http://drmsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHeiserCV.pdf |title=Dr. Michael S. Heiser CV |date=February 2013|access-date=June 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701081615/http://drmsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHeiserCV.pdf |archive-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>▼

Beginning in 2015, Heiser published at least ten books regarding the meaning of various biblical concepts, and on other topics related to popular understandings of spirituality; in addition, he produced at least two works of fiction, in the early 2010s.{{citation needed | date = February 2023}} Until 2019, Heiser was scholar-in-residence at [[Faithlife Corporation]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |title=Logos Author Search {{!}} Michael S. Heiser|url=https://www.logos.com/search?query=Michael%20S.%20Heiser|url-status=live|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=Logos}}</ref> As of 2018 he was Executive Director of the School of Ministry at [[Celebration Church]] in [[Jacksonville, Florida]], and a distance-learning professor at [[Liberty University]]<ref>{{Cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. | url=https://www.logos.com/academic/bio/heiser|title=Bio for Dr. Michael Heiser, Ph.D.|website=Logos|access-date=March 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |url=https://defenderconference.com/speakers/dr-michael-s-heiser/|title=Dr. Michael S. Heiser|date=December 15, 2018|language=en-US|access-date=January 6, 2019}}</ref> and [[Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary]].<ref>{{Cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |url=http://drmsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/MHeiserCV.pdf|title=Dr. Michael S. Heiser}}</ref>{{third party inline|date = February 2023}}{{update after|2023|2|6}} As of that date, Heiser produced the podcast, ''The Naked Bible'', and a ministry called Miqlat, dedicated to the production and dissemination of his content.{{citation needed|date = February 2023}}▼

Heiser appeared in the 2018 documentary film ''Fragments of Truth'',{{citation needed|date = February 2023}}<ref>{{Citation|title=Fragments of Truth {{!}} Official Trailer|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Z2-3OaHfA|language=en|access-date=April 24, 2018}}</ref> and in the 2019 documentary film ''The Unseen Realm''.{{citation needed | date = February 2023}}<ref>{{Citation|title=The Unseen Realm {{!}} Official Film Website|url=https://faithlifetv.com/the-unseen-realm|language=en|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref><!--THESE CITATIONS ARE TO PRIMARY WORKS, AND NOT TO A SECONDARY SOURCE THAT STATES HIS PARTICIPATION IN THESE PRODUCTIONS. WP:OR IS EVIDENT, AND NEEDED TO VERIFY FORM PRIMARY SOURCES.--> In 2019 Heiser released the book ''The World Turned Upside Down: Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things,'' referencing the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Stranger Things]]'' as analogies to Christian theology.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Metaxas |first1=Eric |title=Michael Heiser: The World Turned Upside Down (on Stranger Things) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6wxwkGtmT8 |website=Youtube |publisher=The Eric Metaxas Radio Show}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>▼

In 2020, Heiser was diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]].<ref>{{Cite web | author = Heiser, Michael S. |date=November 2, 2021 |title=Brief Health Update |url=https://drmsh.com/brief-health-update-2/ |access-date=January 22, 2023 |website=Dr. Michael Heiser |language=en-US}}</ref> On January 4, 2023, his wife Drenna, posting on his Instagram page with an accompanying picture of the hospitalized Heiser, noted that he had been admitted for severe anemia, that physicians had stabilized him and were seeking to determine a source of blood loss.<ref>{{cite web | author = Heiser, Drenna | date = January 3, 2022 | title = drmshphd From Drenna Heiser | work = Instagram.com | url = https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9_Bb3PyQo/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ef55b6d8-0b46-448f-8e3d-cbde34c15664 | access-date = February 6, 2023}}</ref> On January 22, he announced on his Facebook page that he was "at the end of the road in the late stage (4) of a very aggressive pancreatic cancer".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lasher |first1=James |title=Bible Scholar Dr. Michael Heiser Shares Bleak Diagnosis |url=https://www.charismanews.com/culture/91271-biblical-scholar-dr-michael-heiser-shares-bleak-cancer-diagnosis |access-date=February 6, 2023 |work=[[Charisma News]] |date=January 23, 2023}}</ref> Heiser succumbed to his illness on February 20, just a week after his 60th birthday.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Michael Heiser has passed into life everlasting after a long battle with cancer. |url=https://www.facebook.com/lexhampress/posts/pfbid02D2dQnZ3b5xDgBbSoDXU9HqzDJog5Zt6JhayXwSiC7GxecbiCTiZxcnGSR8sY8pEml |website=Facebook |publisher=[[Lexham Press]] |access-date=February 21, 2023}}</ref>▼