Moisés Silva (born September 4, 1945) is a Cuban-born American biblical scholar and translator.

Life

He was born in

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, and has lived in the US since 1960.

Education

Silva holds degrees from

Bob Jones University Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its Conservatism in the United States, conservative and Evangelicalism in the United States, evangelical cultural and religious posit ...

(BA, 1966),

Westminster Theological Seminary Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) is a Protestantism, Protestant Christian theology, theological seminary in the Reformed theology, Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Prince ...

(BD, 1969; ThM, 1971), and the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

(PhD, 1972). At Manchester he studied under New Testament and Biblical Studies luminaries,

F. F. Bruce Frederick Fyvie Bruce (12 October 1910 – 11 September 1990) was a Scottish Evangelicalism, evangelical scholar, author and educator who was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester from 1959 until 1 ...

and James Barr. 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 Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

fallacies in

biblical interpretation Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, fo ...

Academic work

He has taught

biblical studies Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with ''Bible'' referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the can ...

at Westmont College (1972–1981),

(1981–1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1996–2000), where he was the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament until his retirement. A past president of the

Evangelical Theological Society The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is a professional society of Biblical scholars, educators, pastors, and students "devoted to the inerrancy and inspiration of the Scriptures and the gospel of Jesus Christ" and "dedicated to the oral ex ...

(1997), Silva for many years had been an ordained minister of the

Orthodox Presbyterian Church The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) is a confessional Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the United States, with additional congregations in Canada, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. It was founded by conservative members of the Presbyte ...

Writings

He served as a translator of the ''

New American Standard Bible The New American Standard Bible (NASB, also simply NAS for "New American Standard") is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published by the Lockman Foundation, the complete NASB was released in 1971. New revisions were publis ...

'', the ''

New Living Translation The New Living Translation (NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House, Tyndale House Foundation, the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." The NLT relies on recently published Text ...

'' (''Ephesians–Philemon''), the ''

English Standard Version The English Standard Version (ESV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 2001 by Crossway, the ESV was "created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors." The ESV relies on recently pu ...

'' 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 The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

'' (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),. formerly edited by Colin Brown. He currently resides in Litchfield,

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, where he continues his work as an author and editor.

Works

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