Moises Silva

Moises Siva is a Cuban born American biblical scholar, minister, author, translator and editor. He is an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has served as a translator of several Bibles. He is also a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society (1997)

Moises was born in Havana, Cuba on 4th September 1925 and has lived in the USA since 1960.

He earned the following degrees
BA Bob Jones University 1966
BD Westminster Theological Seminary 1969
ThM ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ 1971
Phd University of Manchester 1972

He taught Biblical Studies at Westminster College (1972-1981), Westminster Theological Seminary (1981-1996), and Godon Conewll Theological Seminary (1996-2000) where he was Mary French Rockerfeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament until he retired.

He has been involved as a translator in the New American Standard Bible the *New Living Translation and the recent English Standard Version. He has also been consultant for Eugene Peterson’s The Message .

Moises is the editor of the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis .
He was also editor of both the Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, and the Westminster Journal.

Moises’ Biblical Words and Their Meaning (1983, 2nd ed.1994) challenged many common linguistic fallacies in biblical interpretation.

He has also found time to author or co-author several books and articles. His commentary on Philippians was highly acclalmed. (See list of ‘Works’)

Moises Siva currently lives in Litchfield, Michigan where he continues to work as an author and editor.

Sources
Wikipedia