Moises Silva

Moisés Silva Moisés Silva (b. 1945) is an author, editor, and former professor of biblical studies. He taught at Westmont College (1972-1981), Westminster Theological Seminary (1981-1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1996-2000).

He earned his ThM at Westminster Seminary and received a PhD at the University of Manchester in 1972 under James Barr, author of The Semantics of Biblical Language (1961), which heavily influenced his own work on Biblical Words and Their Meaning, challenging common linguistic fallacies in biblical interpretation. A past president of the Evangelical Theological Society (1997), Silva was one of the translators of the New American Standard Bible and the recent English Standard Version.

Select publications

• Has the Church Misread the Bible (1987). ISBN 0310409217.
• God, Language and Scripture (1991). ISBN 0310409519.
• Biblical Words and Their Meaning (1995). ISBN 0310479819.
• An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics (1994, with Walter Kaiser). ISBN 0310530903.
• Invitation to the Septuagint (2000, with Karen Jobes). ISBN 0801022355.
• Interpreting Galatians: Explorations in Exegetical Method (2001). ISBN 080102305X.
• Philippians in Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (2005). ISBN 9780801026812.
• Ed., Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. ISBN 0310331889.
• Ed., Westminster Theological Journal