D. Jonadob Nathaniel is a New Testament Scholar and the current the Director, Translations at the

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, Bangalore. Jonadob was Translations Advisor at the

and was involved in language translations and revisions of the Bible in many of the Indian languages. As a Translations Scholar, Jonadob Nathaniel has been an advocate of the Paratext utility developed by the United Bible Societies. In 2014, Jonadob led a Nepali language Bible Translation Workshop at Darjeeling.

Studies

Jonadob pursued graduate studies in

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from the Madras University and proceeded to the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune where he studied a bachelors course under

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. For postgraduate studies, Jonadob joined the

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where he specialised in New Testament during 1988–1990K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), ''Directory of the United Theological College 1910–1997'', Bangalore, 1997. Past students of the postgraduate course, p.127. under Professor K. James Carl and M. V. Abraham and undertook a dissertation entitled ''The background and use of the term " Mysterion" in the Pauline Corpus'' and was awarded an M. Th. degree by Senate of Serampore College (University) in its annual convocation by then Registrar,

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. During Jonadob's study period in Bangalore, his other companions included B. D. Prasad Rao, H. R. Cabral and

Daniel Sadananda Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda is a New Testament Scholar who is re-elected as the General Secretary ''(Triennium 2017-2020)'' of the Church of South India Synod headquartered in Chennai as well as the Chairperson ''(triennium 2015-2018)'' of the C ...

. Jonadob also pursued doctoral studies at the South East Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila.

Ecclesiastical ministry

In 1990, Jonadob became Translations Advisor at the

, Bangalore working together with

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, then Director-Translations followed by the G. D. V. Prasad. As part of the Translations, Jonadob used to review the new and modern translations throughout India and also used to visit the

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together with

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, liaising with the

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Scholar,

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G. Babu Rao, Coordinator of the

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Common Language Translation Project of the

. After nearly two- decades as Translation Adviser, Jonadob Nathaniel was made Director-Translations in 2011 succeeding G. D. V. Prasad and continues to take forward the translation work with a new impetus with an able translation team comprising Premraj Nag and N. Subramani.N. Subramani, ''The Cultural Impact of Jesus' Teaching: Matthew 5.13–15'' in '' The Bible Translator'', Volume 63, Issue 2, 2012, pp.95–99

/ref> Moreover, the present General Secretary Mani Chacko hails from the clergy and also happens to be an

Scholar.

References

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