J.S. Livesay, born in 1959, was raised as a “child of the 60’s” until, when in his early teens, God reached out and captured his heart, soul and mind.  In 1981 he graduated from Portland Bible College (located in Portland Oregon) having earned a Bachelor of Theology, with an emphasis on hermeneutics.  He has continued his arduous study of the Holy Scriptures after graduating and while raising his family with his wife Marie, until this present day. He has applied his study of scripture and the wisdom it bestows to his professional life as well as to his duties as a husband and father.  A focus on original languages and translations of the Canon (both Old and New Testaments) and the experience of the persistent faithfulness of God, during hard times and easy, inspired the production of this work. He resides in Tennessee with Marie, near four of their eleven children and five of their twenty-five (and counting) grandchildren.