His undergraduate work was at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated with honors as a religion major in 1984.
Cook has served in several capacities as an officer of the Society of Biblical Literature, most recently as a Regional Coordinator for the guild.
He is also the Corporation Representative for Virginia Seminary to the American Schools of Oriental Research and a member of such other professional societies as the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars and the Catholic Biblical Association.
He has been in high demand around the country as a lecturer, seminar speaker, and workshop leader.
He and his wife Catherine, a psychotherapist, live amid the seminary community on its campus in Alexandria, Virginia, with their daughter.