{{short description|Cuban-American biblical scholar, theologian, and academic (born 1945)}} {{multiple issues|{{more citations|date=February 2024}}}} '''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.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
===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.{{sfn|Silva|1985|pp=11}} 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.{{what|date=February 2024}}{{cn|date=February 2024}}
===Academic work=== He has taught biblical studies at Westmont College (1972–1981), Westminster Theological Seminary (1981–1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1996–2000),{{sfn|Beale|Carson|2007|pp=9}} 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 (1997).<ref>{{Citation | title = Evangelical Theological Society | contribution-url = https://etsjets.org/presidents/ |contribution=ETS Past Presidents}}.</ref>
For many years he had been an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
===Writings=== He served as a translator of the ''New American Standard Bible'',<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbprin.php | title = NASB | publisher = Lockman}}.</ref> the ''New Living Translation'' (''Ephesians–Philemon''),<ref>{{Citation | title = Discover the NLT | contribution = Meet the scholars | publisher = New living translation | contribution-url = http://www.newlivingtranslation.com/05discoverthenlt/meetthescholars.asp}}.</ref> the ''English Standard Version''<ref>{{Citation | title = Translation | contribution = Team | publisher = ESV | contribution-url = http://www.esv.org/translation/team}}</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>{{Citation | title = Library thing | contribution-url = http://www.librarything.com/work/2450284/descriptions/ |contribution=Descriptions}}.</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>{{Citation | url = http://www.zondervan.com/new-international-dictionary-of-new-testament-theology-and-exegesis-set | title = New international dictionary of New testament Theology & exegesis set | publisher = Zondervan}}.</ref> formerly edited by Colin Brown. He currently resides in Litchfield, Michigan, where he continues his work as an author and editor.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
==Works== *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés | title = Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780310276197 | page = 228 }} *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés |author1-mask=3 | author2-last=Kaiser, Jr. | author2-first=Walter C. | author2-link =Walter Kaiser, Jr. | title = Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: the Search for Meaning | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780310279518 | page = 352 }} *{{cite book | editor1-last = Silva | editor1-first = Moisés |editor1-mask=3 | title = Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780310208280 | page = 690 }} *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés |author1-mask=3 | author2-last=Jobes | author2-first=Karen H. | author2-link=Karen H. Jobes | title = Philippians | series = BECNT | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780801031151 | page = 272 }} *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés |author1-mask=3 | author2-last=Jobes | author2-first=Karen H. | author2-link=Karen H. Jobes | title = Invitation to the Septuagint | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Baker Academic | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780801031151 | page = 352 }} *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés |author1-mask=3 | title = The Essential Companion to Life in Bible Times: Key Insights for Reading God's Word | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780310286882 | page = 144 }} <ref name=LTMS /> *{{cite book | author1-last = Silva | author1-first = Moisés |author1-mask=3 | title = The Essential Bible Dictionary: Key Insights for Reading God's Word | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780310278214 | page = 240 }} <ref name=LTMS /> *{{cite book | editor1-last = Silva | editor1-first = Moisés |editor1-mask=3 | title = New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis | location = Grand Rapids, MI | publisher = Zondervan | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780310276197 | page = 3552 }} <ref name=LTMS>{{Citation | title = Library thing | contribution-url = https://www.librarything.com/author/silvamoises |contribution=Moisés Silva}}.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book|title=Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament|editor-first1=G. K.|editor-last1=Beale|editor-first2=D. A.|editor-last2=Carson|publisher=Baker Books|date=2007|isbn=978-1441210524}}
{{Westminster Theological Seminary}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Moises}} Category:1945 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American male writers Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers Category:20th-century American Presbyterian ministers Category:20th-century Christian biblical scholars Category:21st-century American male writers Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers Category:21st-century American Presbyterian ministers Category:21st-century Christian biblical scholars Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester Category:American evangelicals Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:American religious writers Category:Bob Jones University alumni Category:Calvinist and Reformed biblical scholars Category:Cuban emigrants to the United States Category:Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary faculty Category:North American biblical scholars Category:Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministers Category:People from Havana Category:Presbyterian writers Category:Translators of the Bible into English Category:Westminster Theological Seminary alumni Category:Westminster Theological Seminary faculty Category:Westmont College faculty Category:Presidents of the Evangelical Theological Society Category:21st-century American biblical scholars Category:20th-century American biblical scholars