Moisés Silva
Template:Short description Template:Multiple issues Moisés Silva (born September 4, 1945) is a Cuban-born American biblical scholar and translator.
Life
He was born in Havana, Cuba, and has lived in the US since 1960.Template:Cn
Education
Silva holds degrees from Bob Jones University (BA, 1966), Westminster Theological Seminary (BD, 1969; ThM, 1971), and the University of Manchester (PhD, 1972). At Manchester he studied under New Testament and Biblical Studies luminaries, F. F. Bruce and James Barr.Template:Sfn The latter's The Semantics of Biblical Language (1961) was a strong influence on Silva's Biblical Words and Their Meaning (1983, 2nd ed. 1994), which challenged many common linguistic fallacies in biblical interpretation.Template:WhatTemplate:Cn
Academic work
He has taught biblical studies at Westmont College (1972–1981), Westminster Theological Seminary (1981–1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1996–2000),Template:Sfn where he was the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament until his retirement. A past president of the Evangelical Theological Society (1997), Silva for many years had been an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.Template:Cn
Writings
He served as a translator of the New American Standard Bible,<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> the New Living Translation (Ephesians–Philemon),<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> the English Standard Version<ref>Template:Citation</ref> and the Nueva Versión Internacional, and as a New Testament consultant for Eugene Peterson's The Message. He has also authored or coauthored several books and articles, including a highly acclaimed commentary on Philippians;<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> Invitation to the Septuagint (with Karen Jobes); God, Language, and Scripture; Has the Church Misread the Bible?; and An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics (with Walter Kaiser, Jr.). He is editor of the second edition of the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis (NIDNTTE),<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> formerly edited by Colin Brown. He currently resides in Litchfield, Michigan, where he continues his work as an author and editor.Template:Cn
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American Presbyterian ministers
- 20th-century Christian biblical scholars
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American Presbyterian ministers
- 21st-century Christian biblical scholars
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- American biblical scholars
- American evangelicals
- American male non-fiction writers
- American religious writers
- Bob Jones University alumni
- Calvinist and Reformed biblical scholars
- Cuban emigrants to the United States
- Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary faculty
- North American biblical scholars
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministers
- People from Havana
- Presbyterian writers
- Translators of the Bible into English
- Westminster Theological Seminary alumni
- Westminster Theological Seminary faculty
- Westmont College faculty
- Presidents of the Evangelical Theological Society