Career
He earned his doctorate in Old Testament Text at BJU with a special focus on Semitic languages. Foreign almost thirty years, he was professor of Ancient Languages and Old Testament Theology and Interpretation at BJU. Barrett assumed the presidency of Geneva Reformed Seminar in the fall of 2000. In the 2009 GRS bulletin, he emphasized his conviction that the seminary connect "head and heart—the intellect and devotion" and that it have an "unapologetic and uncompromising commitment to a Reformed theology that is Christ-centered, biblical, evangelistic, and separatist."
In 2002, the conservative Baptist Bulletin recommended Barrett"s Beginning at Moses to counter what it believed to be a common ignorance of Christ"s presence in the Old Testament.
He is an avid hunter.