What Is the Best Translation of the Bible? | Richard S. Hess, Ph. D.

Описание: 📖 What Is the Best Translation of the Bible? 🤔

In this episode, Dr. Richard Hess, a renowned Old Testament scholar, answers one of the most debated questions: Which Bible translation is the best? 🧐 Dr. Hess has extensive experience in biblical translation, having worked on the NIV Zondervan Study Bible, as well as translations for the New American Bible, Holman Christian Standard Bible, English Standard Version, and Common English Bible. 📜

✅ Which translation is most accurate?
✅ Which is best for study vs. daily reading?
✅ What should you consider when choosing a Bible?

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Biography:

Dr. Richard Hess, who joined the faculty in 1997, is the Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages. He is also the editor of the Denver Journal, Denver Seminary’s online theological review journal. He retired after ten years as editor of the Bulletin for Biblical Research but continues as (the founder and) editor of the Bulletin’s Supplement Series. Dr. Hess is a member of a dozen scholarly societies. Dr. Hess also co-edits the Septuagint Commentary Series.

Additional research interests include Old Testament exegesis and theology, Hebrew and ancient Near Eastern languages, biblical archaeology, and topics such as the transcendent value of human life and healing in biblical times. Dr. Hess is consultant to the postdoctoral research project on Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Onomastics, Tyndale House, Cambridge. He also serves on the ETS Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Archaeology Planning Committee and on the Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch Group.

Dr. Hess earned a PhD from Hebrew Union College, an MDiv and a ThM from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a BA from Wheaton College. He has done postdoctoral research at universities in Chicago, Jerusalem, Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster, and has held National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, and Tyndale House (Cambridge) postdoctoral fellowships and grants. He was lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at International Christian College, Scotland, and Reader in Old Testament at Roehampton University, London. Having lectured at more than one hundred scholarly societies, universities, and colleges, he has recently given invited lectures at Jerusalem University College, Jerusalem; Gateway Seminary, Ontario, California; Westmont College, Santa Barbara; Lanier Theological Library, Houston; and the Irish Bible Institute, Dublin.

Dr. Hess is a member of the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version. He served as associate editor for the NIV Zondervan Study Bible. Dr. Hess has also worked as a translator for the New American Bible, the Holman Standard Christian Bible, the English Standard Version, and The Common English Bible translations of the Old Testament.

Dr. Hess has authored 9 books including: The Old Testament: A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction (Baker, 2016); volumes on religion (Israelite Religions: A Biblical and Archaeological Survey), ancient Near Eastern subjects (Amarna Personal Names and Names in the Study of Biblical History), Genesis (Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1-11), and commentaries on Leviticus, Joshua, and the Song of Songs. He has edited or co-edited 56 books, such as Ancient Israel’s History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources (co-editor B. T. Arnold); Reading Scripture Deeply (co-editor R. Richards); Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch; and commentaries on Septuagint texts such as Exodus: A Commentary on the Greek Text of Codex Vaticanus (D. M Gurtner). In addition to several hundred book reviews and dictionary articles, Dr. Hess has published more than 100 scholarly articles in collected essays and journals such as Biblica, Biblical Archaeologist, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Themelios,Tyndale Bulletin, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Current research projects include a commentary on the books of Kings, Genesis background and theology, Israelite Religions, and the study of ancient Near Eastern texts related to the Old Testament.

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