Dr. J. Randall Price received his master's degree (Th.M.) from Dallas Theological Seminary in Old Testament and Semitic Languages and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Texas at Austin in Middle Eastern Studies with a concentration in Jewish studies and biblical archaeology. He has also done graduate work in Semitic languages and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Randall Price is the Founder and President of World of the Bible Ministries, Inc. and is Distinguished Research Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia). He is also Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Veritas Evangelical Seminary in California. He has taught at the University of Texas (Austin), The International School of Theology, Trinity Southwest University, and Criswell College. He has done post-graduate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written numerous articles and contributed to the several publications in addition to authoring his own books (available on his website).
He was Director of Excavations on the Qumran Plateau (site of the Dead Sea Scroll community) in Israel from 2002-2012 and has been senior archaeologist for the Ark Search LLC Expedition to Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey since 2009. In 1993 he founded World of the Bible Ministries, Inc. and serves as its President and traveling speaker. Dr. Price is a member of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS), Institute for Biblical Research (IBR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), and the Tyndale House Fellowship. He is on the boards of the Associates for Biblical Research, Olive Tree Ministries, and the Pre-Trib Research Center. He and his wife Beverlee (married for 36 years) have four daughters and one son and seven grandchildren.