Dewayne Bryant was born near Nashville, TN. He earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1998, and MA degrees in Biblical Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary 2000 and in Bible from Lipscomb University in 2003. He studied archaeology and ancient Near Eastern languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently completing a PhD in Biblical Studies (emphasizing in Old Testament) at Amridge University. He has been teaching undergraduate classes at Amridge in Pentateuch and Biblical Archaeology since 2006. He served as a field assistant at Tell el-Borg, Egypt for the 2006 season. He also serves as an involvement minister and has taught and conducted seminars not only in the United States, but also in Ghana and in New Zealand. Dewayne has been an ABR associate since August 2011.