Contributing Scholars
Two groups of biblical language scholars have
served to help the ISV Foundation craft the text of the International
Standard Version.
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Producers of an initial base translation of
the text, working directly from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
The ISV base translation is then reworked by the ISV's Committee on
Translation, which produces a Scholarly Review Text of the ISV.
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Review Scholars, who provide comments on the
Scholarly Review Text of the ISV, which are then reworked by the COT into
an English Review Text, which is what you'll find published here on our
web site.
Here's an alphabetical list of scholars who
contributed to the Base Translation of the
Holy Bible: International Standard Version.
 Dr.
Archer (1916-2004) was one of the fifty original translators of the
NASB published in 1971. He
also worked on the team which translated the
NIV Bible published in 1978. His
defense of the doctrine of
Biblical inerrancy by proposing harmonizations and
exegesis regarding alleged contradictions in the Bible made Archer
a well known biblical inerrantist. Dr. Archer believed “One cannot
allow for error in history-science without also ending up with error
in doctrine.” He was critical of the
documentary hypothesis which denies the
Mosaic authorship of the
Pentateuch. One of Dr. Archer's last contributions to the Christian
community before going home to be with the Lord was his rendering of
the base translation of a portion of the book of Daniel
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Bias
Philippine Admissions Liaison
Professor of Biblical Studies
International School of Theology-Asia
B.S. Biology, Saint
Louis University; M.Div. Exposition and Teaching, International School
of Theology-Asia; S.T.M. Academic Ministry, Dallas Theological
Seminary; Ph.D. in Old Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary; staff,
Campus Crusade for Christ, 1988 to present. Dr. Bias produced the base
translation for the books of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Job, Psalms 66-90, Psalms
92-116, and Psalm 118 for the
Holy Bible: International Standard
Version.
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  Dr.
Black served from 1996 to about 1998 as New
Testament Editor for the ISV project.
Dr. Black crafted the base
translation of the New Testament for the Holy Bible: International
Standard Version.
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 Dr.
Curtis crafted the base
translation of the book of Exodus, 1 Samuel, Esther, Song of Songs, and
Jeremiah for the Holy Bible: International Standard Version.
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 Dr.
Flint holds the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies at
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia. He crafted the
base translation for the book of Isaiah using the famous Great
Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the Holy Bible:
International Standard Version. Dr. Flint is the author of numerous
studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the critically acclaimed
The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms (Brill, 1997);
the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Harper San Francisco, 1999); and
The Bible at Qumran: Text, Shape, and Interpretation (Eerdmans,
2001). Area of
Expertise: Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha; Biblical interpretation; Dead Sea Scrolls; Greek,
Hebrew, and Semitic Languages; Isaiah, Psalms, Daniel; Old
Testament/Hebrew Bible Septuagint; Textual criticism of the Hebrew
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 Dr.
Giacumakis is
General Editor for the ISV project and is a member of the ISV
Committee on Translation.
Dr. Giacumakis crafted the base
translation of the book of Genesis, worked with
Dr. Ed Curtis on Exodus, 1 Samuel, Esther, Song of Solomon, and Jeremiah,
about half of the book of Proverbs, about half of
Ecclesiastes, and about half of the book of Daniel for the Holy Bible:
International Standard Version.
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 Dr.
Morey is the author of over 40 books some of which
have been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish,
Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Polish, and Finnish. He is listed in The
International Authors and Writers Who's Who and Contemporary Authors.
He earned a B.A. in philosophy
from Covenant College, a M.Div. in theology from Westminster Seminary, a
DMin. in apologetics from Westminster Seminary, and received a D.D. in
Islamic Studies from Faith Theological Seminary for his groundbreaking
research on the pre-Islamic origins of Islam. Dr. Morey crafted the base
translation of Psalms 1-65 and Psalm 91 for the Holy Bible: International
Standard Version.
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Welty is Executive
Director of the ISV Foundation and is a member of the ISV
Committee on Translation.
Dr. Welty crafted the base
translation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1
& 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Psalms 117,
119-150, Lamentations, Ezekiel, all twelve books of the minor prophets, and about half of the chapters of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,
and the book of Daniel for the Holy Bible: International
Standard Version.
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Here's a list of individuals who contributed to
helping us produce the English Review Text by reading through our Scholarly
Review Text of the ISV:
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L. Blomberg has been a New
Testament scholar at Denver Seminary in Colorado. He is also a
Distinguished Professor of the New Testament. He was an assistant
professor of Religion at Palm Beach Atlantic College and took a leave
of absence to accept a one-year research fellowship in Cambridge,
England with the British wing of the InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship. During this time, he co-edited Gospel Perspectives,
vol. 6: The Miracle of Jesus and wrote The Historical
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Burge is Professor of New Testament at the Wheaton College in Wheaton,
Illinois. He has been a faculty member there since 1992. He teaches
courses in New Testament Literature, Christian Thought, The Gospel of
John, New Testament Criticism, Paul's Letter to the Romans, and The
Bible, the Arabs, and Israel.
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J. Erickson (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate
professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary at Fuller
Seminary Northwest in Seattle, where he has taught exegesis to
students for over twenty years. Erickson has also taught courses at
Lutheran Brethren Seminaries in Kaélé, Cameroon, and Sendai, Japan, at
Seminario Bíblico de Colombia in Medellín, at Seminario Teológico
Presbiteriano San Pablo in Mérida, Yucatán, and at Tyndale Theological
Seminary in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Erickson has published several
articles in professional journals and in Faith and Fellowship,
the denominational magazine of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren,
the church in which he is ordained. He has also presented research
papers at professional meetings and is a frequent speaker at various
churches and conferences.
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Hoehner is Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas
Theological Seminary. Dr. Hoehner has written for scholarly journals
and publications. He is especially well regarded for his work on
biblical chronology, including the time aspects in and around the life
of Christ, the rule of Herod Antipas, and the period between the
Testaments. He has traveled and ministered in Hungary, Czech Republic,
Ukraine, the Near East, Russia, South Africa, and Indonesia.
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 Dr.
Missler is Chairman of
Koinonia House in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He
served on the Board
of Directors of over a dozen public companies, and has also
participated in over 100 business ventures as a principal, strategic
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 Blanchard
Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School since
2000. He previously taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for
over 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of
St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published several theological works
and commentaries on the Bible; notable among them are An
Introduction to the New Testament and A Commentary on the
Epistle to the Romans (part of the New International Commentary on
the New Testament series).
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