Research Team
Biblical Languages and Texts
The content of all SRA teaching and materials are derived from intensive analytical study of God’s original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts, and incorporate, as appropriate, a correlation of other ancient language texts. The primary texts of SRA associates are indicated below.
English
Authorized (KJV) Version, with comparison and assessment of other translations
Hebrew
Massoretic Ben Hkayyim Text, with comparison and assessment of other ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts and codices
Greek
SRA Research Team
Each of our SRA associates and representatives give continual evidence that he or she:
– has been reconciled to God by Jesus Christ;
– is in agreement with SRA foundational beliefs and agrees to maintain these foundational beliefs in all teaching and presentations;
– is actively seeking to conform his or her life to the criteria of the Creator’s design;
– possesses and maintains an effective working knowledge and understanding in the technical and linguistic aspects of both primary Biblical languages, including an understanding of their interrelationship and its significance in comprehending the content of God’s written revelation,
– exhibits an insatiable desire to understand and correlate all aspects of the Creator’s design and to communicate those aspects by the most effective means and in the most effective manner possible.
Kenneth F. Sheets
Director of Scripture Research Associates
Kenneth F. Sheets is Dean and Professor of Biblical Languages and Theology at Tabernacle Baptist Bible College and Seminary (TBBCS), and he is director of Scripture Research Associates. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (1976) from the University of Virginia and a Master of Divinity in Old Testament (1986) from Tennessee Temple Baptist Seminary and has done additional work toward a doctoral degree. Finishing seminary in 1986, he and his family moved to Oregon to plant a church, and in 1992, they moved to Hickory, North Carolina, where he served as an assistant pastor and soon began teaching at Ambassador Baptist College, where he taught for twelve years. In 2005, he became the Dean of TBBCS in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and remains in that position, having also begun Scripture Research Associates in 2018. Mr. Sheets has combined his analytical abilities and facility in the Biblical languages with an intensive understanding of God as Creator to produce numerous unpublished theses and exegetical analyses demonstrating the necessity and value of understanding the revelation of God as He gave it. He is also a U.S. Army veteran, having served in the Vietnam War in 1968.
Rebecca L. Miller
Assistant Director of Scripture Research Associates
Rebecca L. Miller is Professor of Biblical Languages and Linguistics at Tabernacle Baptist Bible College and Seminary (TBBCS), and she is assistant director of Scripture Research Associates. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (2009) with a minor in linguistics from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Master of Divinity (2015) and Doctor of Religious Education (2017) in Biblical Languages from Tabernacle Baptist Theological Seminary. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Tracing the Language of Adam through History: A Biblical Model for the History of Language, demonstrates the analytical and linguistic abilities which she combines with her facility in Biblical languages in her teaching. She is continuing her linguistic research to discern the evidences connecting modern languages to those formed at the Babel dispersion.
SRA Research Associates
Associates are available to be used for speaking and teaching engagements in assemblies of believers, churches, and organizations.
SRA receives associates into the research team by invitation only. Persons who have not been invited into the research team may request inclusion and may submit their research for consideration and potential SRA use and publication, but, to facilitate effective interaction, the number of research team associates will be limited.