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Zane Clark Hodges graduated magna cum laude in Wheaton College'

s class of 1954 and Dallas Seminary

Th.M degree '58. He served

as a professor of New Testament and Greek for 27 years at

Dallas Theological Seminary.

Born June 15, 1932 of Z.C. Sr. and Virginia Hodges

in Ardmore, OK, he grew up in Chambersburg, PA where father was employed

by the government at the Letterkenny Ordnance Depot.

The staunch

Plymouth Brethren family, including younger brother David, vacationed at

the denomination's Greenwood Hills Bible Conference. Attending

Wheaton College, Hodges majored in Greek, attended Bethany Chapel (Brethren)

on College Avenue. Beltonian literary society attracted the serious-

minded and Hodges served as parliamentarian, corresponding secretary

and President. Hodges was among 37 classmates elected to the

Scholastic Honor Society.

While still studying in seminary he embraced a ministry

totally new to him--working with Hispanic youth in South Dallas at The

Old Mission. Even not speaking Spanish he stuck with it for some 15 years, leading a youth club later in Little Mexico and actually, in 1959,moving into the neighborhood.

He loved the classroom and, having served for a year as chairman of the seminary's New

Testament Department, he realized administration was not his gift and cheerfully returned to his students.

Hodges' church life centered at Victor Street Bible Chapel(formerly The Old Mission) in Dallas where he taught and preached

for some 40 years.

 Upon retirement from DTS in 1986 he formed Kerugma Inc.–later Kerugma Ministries -

-the arm of

his writing and publishing ministry out of his home. He was

currently working on a commentary on Romans and issuing an expository

newsletter going through 2 Peter.

Hodges died on November 28 at age 76.