Moisés Silva


Moisés Silva is a Cuban-born American biblical scholar and translator.

Life

He was born in Havana, Cuba, and has lived in the US since 1960.

Education

Silva holds degrees from Bob Jones University, Westminster Theological Seminary, and the University of Manchester. At Manchester he studied under New Testament and Biblical Studies luminaries, F. F. Bruce and James Barr. The latter's The Semantics of Biblical Language was a strong influence on Silva's Biblical Words and Their Meaning, which challenged many common linguistic fallacies in biblical interpretation.

Academic work

He has taught biblical studies at Westmont College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he was the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament until his retirement. He is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
For many years he had been an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Writings

He served as a translator of the New American Standard Bible, the New Living Translation, the English Standard Version 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; Invitation to the Septuagint ; God, Language, and Scripture; Has the Church Misread the Bible?; and An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics. He is editor of the second edition of the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis, formerly edited by Colin Brown. He currently resides in Litchfield, Michigan, where he continues his work as an author and editor.

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