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Kerry is a best-selling author and award-winning researcher who received his B.S. from BYU in Psychology with a Hebrew minor and an M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, also from BYU. He earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in Egyptology. He is a professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, and is the director of the BYU Egypt Excavation Project, for which his work has been featured on National Geographic. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He and his wife, Julianne, are the parents of six children and one gandchild, and together they have lived in Jerusalem while Kerry has taught there on multiple occasions.