Dr. Trevan G. Hatch is a scholar of the Bible and Jewish Studies.

He earned a B.A. in History from Brigham Young University, an M.A. in Jewish Studies (with an emphasis in Bible and Jewish origins) from Baltimore Hebrew University and Towson University, and a Ph.D. in the social sciences from Louisiana State University, where his research focused on religion and Judaism. He is currently completing a second doctorate in Jewish Studies (with an emphasis in Bible and Early Judaism) at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago (formerly the Spertus College of Judaica).

In 2023, Dr. Hatch was selected as an Israel–Palestine Studies Research Fellow at Brandeis University. He has also pursued academic study in Israel at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of the Holy Land.

Dr. Hatch has authored and edited several works published by both national and Latter-day Saint presses. His publications include A Stranger in Jerusalem: Seeing Jesus as a Jew (Wipf & Stock, 2019); “The Learning of the Jews”: What Latter-day Saints Can Learn from Jewish Religious Experience (Kofford, 2021), co-edited with Dr. Leonard Greenspoon, Chair of Jewish Studies at Creighton University; and Greater Love Hath No Man: A Latter-day Saint Guide to Celebrating the Easter Season (Religious Studies Center, 2023), coauthored with Eric Huntsman.