Barry J. Beitzel (PhD, The Dropsie University; Fuller Theological Seminary; University of Pennsylvania) is a professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical University in Deerfield, Illinois. His published mapwork appears in the NLT Study Bible, the ESV Study Bible, and the NIV Study Bible. Dr. Beitzel and his wife, Carol, reside in Mundelein, Illinois, and have three grown children.