John S. Thompson obtained his BA and MA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Hebrew Bible) from BYU and UC Berkeley respectively and completed a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an employee of the Seminaries & Institutes of Religion for 28 years, most recently as the Institute Director in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John now researches and writes full-time at Scripture Central. He married Stacey Keller from Orem, Utah, and they have nine children and four grandchildren