The Committee on Bible Translation (CBT)
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Dr. Douglas Moo, Chair
Douglas J. Moo is currently Blanchard Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, where he teaches and mentors students in the masters and doctoral programs. He was previously a faculty member at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has written commentaries on several New Testament books (Romans, James, Colossians, and 2 Peter-Jude) and co-written a New Testament Introduction (with D. A. Carson). Dr. Moo has been a member of CBT since 1996.
Dr. Mark L. Strauss, Vice Chair
Mark L. Strauss has a Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and is professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary San Diego, where he has served for 15 years. He is the author of many books and articles including, Four Portraits, One Jesus: An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels (Zondervan, 2007); How to Choose a Translation for All It's Worth (with Gordon D. Fee); The Essential Bible Companion (with John Walton; 2006. Dr. Strauss has served on the Committee for Bible Translation since 2005.
Dr. Karen H. Jobes, Secretary
Dr. Karen H. Jobes is the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Wheaton College and Graduate School. She holds a PhD in Biblical Hermeneutics from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Among her publications are 1 Peter (BECNT; Baker Academic, 2005), Invitation to the Septuagint (with Moisés Silva, Baker Academic, 2000), and the NIV Application Commentary: Esther (Zondervan, 1999). She has been a member of the CBT since 1995.
Dr. Kenneth Barker
Dr. Kenneth Barker is an author and speaker living in Lewisville, Texas. Until his retirement from Biblica in 1996, he was Executive Director of Biblica's NIV Translation Center. He is one of the original translators of the NIV and a regular spokesperson for the CBT. He holds a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD from the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. He has served as Academic Dean of Capital Bible Seminary, Professor of Old Testament at three theological seminaries, and Visiting Professor at two others. He also is an author of commentaries on the books of Micah and Zechariah.
Dr. Barker has given talks all over the U.S. and abroad about the translation process of the NIV, and much of his time is spent writing, editing, preaching and teaching. He also worked on the NIrV, three books about the NIV, and the tenth-anniversary edition of The NIV Study Bible as its general editor.
[Note: Two of Dr. Kenneth Barker's books are available for reading online - "Accuracy Defined & Illustrated" and "The NIV: The Making of a Contemporary Translation."
Dr. Craig Blomberg
Dr. Craig Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Craig is the author of twelve books and has co-authored or co-edited seven more, along with dozens of journal articles and chapters in multi-author works. His books include three on the historical reliability and interpretation of the gospels (one on John), two on interpreting and preaching the parables, three commentaries (on Matthew, 1 Corinthians and James). Dr. Blomberg has been a member of CBT since 2008.
Dr. Jeannine K. Brown
Dr. Jeannine Brown is Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota where she also completed her M.Div in 1991. She has a Ph.D. in New Testament from Luther Seminary. Dr. Brown has consulted to two major Bible translation projects (Common English Bible and New Century Version) and has published a large number of scholarly articles. In 2007 she published a major introduction to Biblical hermeneutics. She has also made contributions to three other published books including a section on Matthew’s gospel in The Evangelical One-Volume Commentary on the Bible (rev.). Dr. Brown joined CBT in 2009.
Dr. Gordon Fee
Dr. Gordon Fee is Professor of New Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of California. He has taught at Wheaton College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Dr. Richard T. France
Dr. Richard T. France worked in the 1970s as a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Ife in Nigeria. From 1981 to 1988 he taught at London Bible College in New Testament studies and from 1989 to 1995 he was Principal of Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University. He was a parish minister in England and Wales from 1995 until his retirement in 1999. He has served for two periods on the CBT, from 1990 to 1995 and from 1999 to the present. Currently, he leads the UK delegation and is involved in Anglicizing the text to make it appropriate for readers in the UK and the British Commonwealth.
Dr. David Instone-Brewer
Rev. Dr. David Instone-Brewer, a UK Baptist minister was educated in Cardiff and Cambridge. After a decade as a pastor in Wales, he now holds an academic post at Tyndale House, Cambridge. His two research specialties are the Jewish background of the New Testament and software for Biblical Studies. He has written books on divorce and other New Testament teachings which are illuminated by ancient Jewish documents (DivorceRemarriage.com). Dr. Instone-Brewer has been on the CBT since 2005.
Dr. William Mounce
Bill Mounce is the Vice President of Educational Development at BibleGateway, and the president of BiblicalTraining.org. Formerly he was a full-time Preaching Pastor, and before that a professor of New Testament and Director of the Greek Language Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a professor of New Testament at Azusa Pacific University. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary (M.A.) and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He specializes in writing about the Greek Language, both reference and textbooks. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible. Dr. Mounce joined CBT in 2009.
Dr. Paul Swarup
The Rev. Dr. Paul Swarup is a minister with the Church of North India in the Diocese of Delhi, presently pastoring at Christ Church, Noida. He holds a PhD in OT Theology/Dead Sea Scrolls from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a visiting faculty at the Jesuit Seminary, Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi and the Marthoma Seminary, Dharamjyoti Vidya Peet, Faridabad., Haryana.
Dr. Larry L. Walker
Dr. Larry L. Walker holds a PhD from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. He has taught Hebrew and other ancient languages (such as Aramaic, Akkadian, and Ugaritic) at the seminary level for 30 years. Dr. Walker also served on the International Council of Biblical Inerrancy that drafted the now-famous "Chicago Statement on Inerrancy." Serving on the CBT has allowed him to work with fellow scholars who share the highest view of the nature of Scripture.
Dr. Walker joined the CBT shortly after it was formed. He comments, "I was for many years the youngest member of it. Now I am one of the oldest! The committee has matured together and understands the thinking of others almost like mates in marriage do. We each bring different personalities and background experiences to the work. I can think of times when some issue was illuminated by a member's background in farming, medicine, chemistry, etc. "The experience of working thousands of hours over several decades with excellent fellow scholars is beyond description. In many ways, this far exceeds all my formal training in preparation for my life's work."
Dr. Michael Williams
Dr. Michael Williams is on the faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary, where he has served since 1995. He holds a M.A. in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1999). He was ordained in 2000 in the Christian Reformed Church. Dr. Williams has taught courses at Westminster Theological Seminary, the University of Pennsylvania, and in Kenya, Ukraine, and Poland.
In addition to numerous articles on Old Testament topics in various reference works and academic journals, Dr. Williams has authored Deception in Genesis: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Unique Biblical Phenomenon (2001); The Prophet and His Message: Reading Old Testament Prophecy Today (2003), and contributed to and edited Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay (2009).
Dr. Ronald Youngblood
Dr.Ronald Youngblood became an NIV translator in 1970 and a member of the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT) 10 years later. His translation experience during the past 30 years has included extensive work on all parts of the NIV as well as more limited tasks related to the recently launched Spanish and Portuguese NVIs. He is also the executive editor of the NIrV, the simplified Bible so popular with children as well as with people for whom English is a second language. As an associate editor of the NIV Study Bible, Youngblood has been contacted by countless readers who have been helped and blessed by its text and notes.
On July 31, 2001, he retired from his position as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Bethel Theological Seminary in San Diego, California, after teaching full-time for 40 years.
