Massey Twins' Biographies

Dr. Keith Massey
Keith Massey received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Classics from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. He completed a Master of Arts in Old Testament from Luther Seminary in
1990, a Master of Arts in Hebrew and Semitic Studies from the UW-Madison in 1992 and his PhD in the
same field, with a minor in Arabic in 1998. After 9/11, he went to work at the Top Secret National Security
Agency as an Arabic linguist, where he served for more than four years. He now teaches Latin and Arabic in
New Jersey, summering with his wife in her native Romania. An avid traveler, Keith has visited 19 different
countries, seven of which have been Arabic-speaking countries.
Keith is the author of Intermediate Arabic for Dummies, as well as a number of other academic articles on a
variety of linguistic topics.
Rev. Kevin Massey
Kevin Massey received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin in
1987. Rev. Massey completed his Master of Divinity at Luther Seminary in St. Paul Minnesota in 1993.
Kevin is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as well as a Board Certified
Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. Kevin worked as a chaplain and spiritual care
trainer and coordinator with Advocate Health Care in Chicago from 1999-2005. He has worked extensively
in the field of Disaster Spiritual Care administration and training with the American Red Cross and Church
World Service including service at Ground Zero in the fall of 2001 and 2005 Katrina response. Rev. Massey
is currently the Director of Lutheran Disaster Response. He is an accomplished linguist, conversant in several
languages. Rev. Massey studied and worked abroad in the Middle East on several occasions. Kevin has
written numerous articles, curricula, chapters, and a book on such diverse topics as Spiritual Care, Clinical
Ethics, Disaster Response, Linguistics, Archaeology, and inter-religious dialogue.
Intermediate Arabic for Dummies
covers topics of Arabic grammar from
the basic through intermediate level
of study. It includes numerous
exercises to practice what you have
learned.
A Place of Brightness
is an action-adventure
novel set in pre-and
post-Communist
Romania.
Next Stop: Spanish is
an espionage-
adventure novel in
which the reader can
also learn some basic
Spanish.