Moisés Silva

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1] 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.^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

Academic work

He has taught biblical studies at Westmont College (1972–1981), Westminster Theological Seminary (1981–1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1996–2000),^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Writings

He served as a translator of the New American Standard Bible,^[3] the New Living Translation (Ephesians–Philemon),^[4] the English Standard Version^[5] 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;^[6] 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),^[7] formerly edited by Colin Brown. He currently resides in Litchfield, Michigan, where he continues his work as an author and editor.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Silva, Moisés (1985). Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 228. ISBN 9780310276197.
• ———; Kaiser, Jr., Walter C. (1994). Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: the Search for Meaning. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 352. ISBN 9780310279518.
• ———, ed. (1996). Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 690. ISBN 9780310208280.
• ———; Jobes, Karen H. (2005). Philippians. BECNT. p. 272. ISBN 9780801031151.
• ———; Jobes, Karen H. (2005). Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. p. 352. ISBN 9780801031151.
• ——— (2011). The Essential Companion to Life in Bible Times: Key Insights for Reading God's Word. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 144. ISBN 9780310286882.
• ——— (2011). The Essential Bible Dictionary: Key Insights for Reading God's Word. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 240. ISBN 9780310278214.
• ———, ed. (2014). New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 3552. ISBN 9780310276197.

References

Sources

• Beale, G. K.; Carson, D. A., eds. (2007). Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Baker Books. ISBN 978-1441210524.

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