Terry B. Ball

Terry Briggs Ball is an American scholar who served as dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University (BYU) until 2013.

Biography As a young man, from 1974 to 1976 Ball served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Japan Kobe Mission. After returning to Utah, he taught Japanese in the Missionary Training Center in Provo until 1979. From 1979 to 1992 he was a Seminary and Institute of Religion teacher and administrator for the Church Educational System in Fort Thomas, Arizona, Mountain Home, Idaho, and at BYU. Ball is married to the former DeAnna Hill and they have six children.

After receiving his doctorate, Ball became a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU in 1992. In 2006 he became the Dean of Religious Education. Ball has focused his religious research and publication on the prophet Isaiah and has continued to conduct research in his doctoral field of archaeobotany.

Ball has written several papers related to agriculture and archeobotany. Ball wrote "Agriculture in Lehi's World: Some Textual, Historical, Archaeological, and Botanical Insights" with Wilford M. Hess which was included in the book Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem. Ball has applied botanical principles to the understanding of Isaiah.

Ball has written articles for The Journal of Archaeological Science.