Andrew Dean Swafford holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary and a masters degree in Old Testament and Semitic Languages from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a contributing author to '30-Second Bible' (2012) and is currently an Assistant Professor of eology at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, where he resides with his wife and three children.