David Alan Black

was born in Hawaii, and was active in the Jesus Movement as a teenager. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Basel in Switzerland, is an author, lecturer, preacher, avid horseman, husband, father, and a professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He and his wife live on a 123-acre working farm in Southern Virginia and are self-supporting missionaries to Ethiopia, which they visit twice each year.