Written by Donald L. Brake Sr.

Donald L. Brake Sr., PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary; Dean Emeritus, Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University. A former pastor, he lives with wife Carol, in Lewisville, Texas. The author has served as a Missionary in Ethiopia, SIM; Professor of Theology, Multnomah Biblical Seminary; Pastor, North Carrollton Baptist Church; President, Institute of Holy Land Studies (now Jerusalem University College; and dean Multnomah Biblical Seminary; and co-founder Living Word Bible Museum. He currently is a freelance writer. The author’s experience as president of the Institute in Jerusalem has given him insight into the historical, cultural, and geographical background of Israel and the life of Christ. Dr. Brake has led tours to the Holy Land and has taught the life of Christ and the Bible’s historical/cultural backgrounds for more than thirty-five years. Dr. Brake wrote a series of fifteen articles for the St. Louis Metro Voice and has published the Wycliffe New Testament. His book A Visual History of the English Bible was published in 2008 (a 2009 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian Book Award finalist); Jesus, a Visual History with Todd Bolen, 2014; A Monarch’s Majestic Translation, in 2017; and A Visual History of the King James Bible, in 2011 (with Shelly Beach; also translated into Portuguese as "Uma Historia Visual Da Biblia King James"), a commemorative edition celebrating four hundred years of the King James Version. His major article “Versions, English” was published in The Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol. volume 5, Abington Press. His most recent work is They Called Him Yeshua: the Story of the Young Jesus, 2019.