Dr. R. Dean Davis

Dr. R. Dean Davis began his career as a college Bible teacher in 1959, while studying at the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary in Takoma Park, Maryland. He and his wife Vera (Bock) spent nearly 16 years in mission service, where they raised their family and he served as a professor and president of Northeast Brazil College in the state of Pernambuco. Later, he served as chairman of the theology department at Brazil College, near São Paulo.

Returning to the United States in 1975, he studied for his Ph.D. in Religion at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. But while writing his dissertation, he took a position as a professor, and later the chairman of the Atlantic Union College Theology Department in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.

Retiring in 2008, he continued teaching part time until the college closed permanently in 2018. They had three children—Bobby Davis of Herrin, Illinois; Dawn Nielsen of Marietta, Georgia; and Linda Parsons, of Clinton, Massachusetts—and enjoyed their four grandchildren. After moving to Marietta, Georgia, in 2001, Dr. Davis wrote a sequel to his first book, as well as biblical commentaries on the prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation. Dr. Davis passed away in Marietta on February 13, 2024.