Holman Christian Standard Bible Translation Team

Meet the Translators | Selected Translation Team Profiles

Broadman & Holman Chief Editors

The Translation Team Talks about the Holman CSB

Edwin A. Blum
General Editor/Translator; Th.M., Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.; D. Theol., Univ. of Basel; additional study, Rice Univ.
E. Ray Clendenen
Associate General Editor/Translator; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; M.A., Dropsie Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Lloyd W. Mullens
Managing editor; B.A., Belmont Univ.; graduate studies, New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
David R. Shepherd
Executive Editor; Publisher, Broadman & Holman; B.A., David Lipscomb Univ.

Broadman & Holman Editors and Translators

Trent C. Butler
V.P. and Editorial Dir. Christian Board of Publications; B.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Vanderbilt Univ.
Frank Carmical
Editor/Stylist; Evangelist for Harvester Ministries; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.
James Davis
Editor/Translator; Professor of N.T. & Greek, Jordan Evang. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Th.M., Capital Bible Sem.; Ph.D., Dallas Theol. Sem
Art Farstad
First General Editor (deceased); Th.M., Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Harold R. Holmyard
Editor/Translator; Th.M., Grace Theol. Sem.; Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Will Rutherford
Word Studies/Translator; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; PhD, Univ. of Edinburgh
David K. Stabnow
Editor/Translator; M.Div., Bethel Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Westminster Theol. Sem.
Kevin R. Warstler
Editor/Translator; Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
R. Gregg Watson
Editor/Translator; Professor of OT & Hebrew, Golden Gate Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.

Section Editors and Textual Reviewers

Todd Beall
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Capital Bible Sem.; Th.M., Capital Bible Sem.; Ph.D., The Catholic Univ. of America
Duane Garrett
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Southern Baptist Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Div. School; Ph.D., Baylor Univ.
David M. Howard, Jr.
Professor of O.T., Bethel Seminary; M.A., Wheaton College; A.M., Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan; Text-critical reviewer Old Testament
James Price
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Temple Bapt. Sem.; M.Div., Los Angeles Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Dropsie Univ.
Mark Rooker
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Southeastern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis Univ.
Warren, William
Director of the Center for N.T. Textual Studies and Professor of N.T. and Greek, New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Th.D., New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Text-critical reviewer New Testament

Other Editors and Translators

Martin Abegg
Director, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute & Associate Professor and Chair Religious Studies, Trinity Western Univ. (Langley, British Columbia); M.Div.,
Northwest Bapt. Sem.; M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
David Allen
Dean of Theology Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Univ. of Texas at Arlington
James Allman
Professor of Bible, Dallas Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Stephen J. Andrews
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Midwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Eastern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Southeastern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
Richard Averbeck
Professor of O.T. & Semitics, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; M.Div., M.A., Grace Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Dropsie Univ.
Robert Bergen
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Hannibal-LaGrange College; M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Bryan Beyer
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Columbia Bible College; M.Div., Denver Sem.; Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
Roy Brown
Retired professor of physics; developer of Accordance Bible Software; Ph.D., Baylor Univ ; Post Doctoral Studies, Technion Israel Institute
Hassell Bullock
Professor of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College; Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
Lawrence Burks
Pastor, Grand Avenue Bapt. Church, Gainesville, Texas; M.A., Texas Christian Univ.; M.Div., D.Min., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Rick Byargeon
Assoc Professor of Hebrew & OT, New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Stephen Carlson
Editor/Translator; M.Div., Ph.D., Mid-America Bapt. Theol. Sem
Dennis Cole
Professor of OT &Archaeology, New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Th.M., Western Theol. Sem.; Th.D., New Orleans Bapt. Theo. Sem.
Jack Collins
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Covenant Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Faith Evangelical Lutheran Sem.; Ph.D., Univ. of Liverpool
Iain Duguid
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Westminster Theol. Sem. ;Th.M., Westminster Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Cambridge Univ.
Barrett Duke
Vice-President of Research, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, SBC; M.A., Denver Sem.; Ph.D., Iliff School of Theology
Thomas Edgar
Professor of N.T. Literature & Exegesis, Capital Bible Sem.; Th M., Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Archie England
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Ph.D., Mid-America Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Joe A. Friberg
Pension actuary, Friberg Retirement Plan Consultants; M.A., Univ. of Texas at Arlington; M.A. Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Alan Groves
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Westminster Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Westminster Theol. Sem.; Ph.D. candidate, Free Univ. of Amsterdam
Larry Helyer
Professor of Biblical Studies, Taylor Univ.; M.Div., Western Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Fuller Theol. Sem.
Richard Hess
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Denver Sem.; M.Div., Th.M., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
Zane Hodges
Retired professor of N.T. & Greek, Dallas Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Paul House
Assoc. Dean Beeson Div. Sch.; M.A., Univ. of Missouri-Columbia; M.Div., Ph.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Peter Johnston
Professor at Nairobi Evangelical Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Canterbury Univ. (England)
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Retired President, Gordon-Conwell Theol. Sem.; M.A., Wheaton College; Ph.D., Brandeis Univ.
Brian Kelly
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Canterbury College; M.Phil., Trinity College; Ph.D., Univ. of Bristol
George Klein
Professor of O.T., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Dropsie Univ.
Tremper Longman III
Professor of O.T., Westmont College; Ph.D., Yale Univ.
Kirk Lowery
Associate Director, The Westminster Hebrew Institute, Westminster Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Talbot Graduate School of Theology; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Richard Melick
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Golden Gate Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Trinity Evang. Div. School; Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Eugene H. Merrill
Distinguished Professor of O.T. studies, Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D. Columbia Univ.; Ph.D., Bob Jones Univ.
Karen Maticich
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, International School of Theology; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Cambridge Univ.
Janice Meier
Editor, Adult Sunday School Ministry Dept., Lifeway Christian Resources; M.Div., Th.D., New Orleans Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Stephen Miller
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Mid-America Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Ph.D., Mid-America Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Jeffrey Niehaus
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Gordon-Conwell Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
Richard Patterson
Retired professor of O.T. & Hebrew; M.Div., Northwest Bapt. Sem.; Th.M., Talbot Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., UCLA
Stanley Porter
President and Professor of NT, McMaster Divinity College; Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield
Michael Rydelnik
Professor of Jewish Studies, Moody Bible Institute; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; D.Miss., Trinity Evangelical Div. School
John H. Sailhamer
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Southeastern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., UCLA
Philip Satterthwaite
Professor of Biblical studies, Biblical Graduate School of Theology (Singapore); Ph.D., Manchester Univ.
Richard Schultz
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Wheaton College; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; M.A., Ph.D., Yale Univ.
Gary Smith
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Union Univ.; Ph.D., Dropsie Univ.
Joe M. Sprinkle
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Crossroads College; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
Douglas K. Stuart
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Gordon-Conwell Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
Robert L. Williams
Professor of Biblical Theology,Southwestern Bapt. Theol Sem.; Th.M Dallas Seminary; M.A., Ph. D. University of Chicago
Paul Wright
Professor of O.T. & Hebrew, Jerusalem Univ. College; Ph.D., Hebrew Union College

Reviewers and English Stylists

Clinton Arnold
Professor of N.T. Language and Literature, Talbot School of Theology; M.Div., Talbot School of Theology; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen
Craig Blomberg
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Denver Sem.; M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen
Steve Cox
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Mid-America Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Erskin Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Rodney Cloud
Professor of O.T., emeritus, David Lipscomb Univ.; M.A., Harding Graduate School of Religion; M.A., Peabody College; Ph.D., Hebrew Union College
D. Jane Crutcher
English Stylist; M.S. New Mexico State Univ.
Kendall H. Easley
Director Master of Chris. Ed., Union Univ., Germantown; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Thomas Edgar
Professor of N.T., Capital Bible Sem; Research Professor in N.T., Univ. of Surrey; Th M., Th.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.; M.A., Trinity Evangelical Div. School; M.A., Claremont Graduate School; Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield;
Craig Glickman
Attorney; Th.M, Dallas Theol. Sem.; D.Theol., Univ. of Basel; J.D., Southern Methodist Univ.
Gene Green
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Wheaton College; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen
George Guthrie
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Union Univ.; Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Fran Honea
English Stylist; B.F.A. Texas Tech Univ.; additional studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania and Temple Univ.
Shirley Hull
English Stylist; M.A.B.S., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Brent Kinman
Pastor, Castle Rock, Colorado; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Cambridge Univ.
George W. Knight
English Stylist; B.D., Th.M., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem
Andreas Kostenberger
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Southeastern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Div. School
Victoria B. Lee
Project Editor, LifeWay Christian Resources; B.S., David Lipscomb Univ.
Boyd Luter
Editor, The Criswell Legacy Project; Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theol. Sem.
Michael Martin
Acad. V.P. Golden Gate Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Calvin Miller
English stylist; Professor of Homiletics, Beeson Divinity School; M.Div., D.Min., Midwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Curtis McClain
Professor of Bible, Missouri Bapt. Univ.; M.Div., Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Mid-America Bapt. Sem.
Ross McLaren
Editor, Adult Sunday School Ministry Dept., Lifeway Christian Resources; M.Div., D.Min., Vanderbilt Univ.
Frances Mosher
English Stylist; B.S., Univ. of North Texas; additional studies, Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Sheila E. Moss
English Stylist; M.A., MTSU; M.Ed., Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univ.
Robert Mounce
Retired Professor; President Emeritus, Whitworth College; Th.M., Fuller Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen; D.D., Seattle Pacific Univ.
John Perry
English Stylist; B.A., Vanderbilt Univ.; additional studies, Univ. College, Oxford
Thomas R. Schreiner
Professor of N.T. Interpretation, Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Th.M., Western Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Fuller Theol. Sem.
Daniel B. Spross
Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Theology, Trevecca Nazarene Univ.; M.A., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Sem.; M.Div., Nazarene Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Robert H. Stein
Professor of N.T. Interpretation, Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; B.D., Fuller Theol. Sem.; S.T.M., Andover Newton Theol. School; Ph.D., Princeton Theol. Sem.; additional studies: Univ. of Tübingen
Chris Thomas
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Church of God School of Theology; Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield
Alan Tomlinson
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Midwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Th.M., Dallas Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Curtis Vaughan
Deceased. Former Professor Emeritus, Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; M.Div., Th.D. Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Marianne Wilson
English Stylist; B.S., Southwestern College
Paul Wolfe
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem.; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen
Robert Yarbrough
Professor of N.T. & Greek, Trinity Evangelical Div. School; M.A., Wheaton College; Ph.D., Univ. of Aberdeen

Production and Proofreading

Ann Cherry
Proofreader; B.A. Union Univ.; additional studies Southern Theol. Sem.
Mark Farstad
Data Entry Technician; B.A., Moody Bible Institute
Mike Fink
Retired Editor, LifeWay Christian Resources; M.R.E., M.Div., Ph.D., Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Buelah Thigpen
Retired Editor, LifeWay Christian Resources; M.A., D.Ed. East Texas State University; M.Div. Golden Gate Bapt. Theol. Sem.
Peachtree Editorial and Proofreading Services
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Selected Translation Team Profiles

Ed Blum—General Editor

Pastor/Professor/Husband/Father/Businessman/Scholar/Bible Translator

Ed Blum brought a rare combination of gifts to his work as general editor for the Holman Christian Standard Bible. Born in Wisconsin and raised in Chicago, Dr. Edwin A. Blum attended the University of Illinois and graduated from Bob Jones University magna cum laude with a degree in secondary school administration. After marrying Ann Monroe in 1957, he continued his education at Dallas Theological Seminary where he received a M.Th. with honors.

Ed and his family moved to Houston in 1962, where he became pastor of the 30-member Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church. Over the next ten years, Ed received his Th.D. in New Testament from Dallas Seminary, began post-doctoral study at Rice University, and saw his congregation grow to more than 500. Returning to Dallas, Dr. Blum served as pastor of the 1,500-member Believer’s Chapel and joined the faculty of Dallas Seminary, where he was awarded tenure as associate professor of historical theology.

In 1977, Ed earned a doctorate of theology magna cum laude from the University of Basel, Switzerland. The following year he became a co-founder of Trinity Fellowship near Dallas, where he served as pastor and teacher until 1984.

Taking his Christian witness from the pulpit into the world, Blum became general director of the Christian Medical Society, an organization of 7,000 physicians and dentists. There he supervised a staff of 60, including the Medical Group Missions projects which sent more than 900 physicians into third-world countries.

His experience with the medical society led to other opportunities in business management. In 1985, Dr. Blum became CEO of the worldwide MPH Health Plan. Three years later, he was tapped for the position of vice president at Pacific Construction Company in Honolulu, a division of the $7 billion New Zealand company, Fletcher Challenge.

After almost ten years in the commercial construction business, Dr. Blum came full circle when he returned to Dallas to become the associate general editor of the Holman Christian Standard Bible translation project, then under the direction of Arthur Farstad. After Dr. Farstad’s death in the summer of 1998, Blum became general editor. From project headquarters in Dallas, he and his staff coordinated and supervised a network of roughly 100 translation team members in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Now from his recently built home and office in Arizona, he continues the ongoing work of reviewing the translation and associated Bible products for Holman.

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Ray Clendenen—Associate General Editor

Fine Coffee While You Work

Catch a whiff of fine coffee in the Bible and Reference Book Department at Holman Bible Publishers, and you’re bound to be near the office of Ray Clendenen. One of the HCSB translation team’s foremost Starbucks aficionados, Ray was also the associate general editor for the translation and executive editor for Bibles and Reference Books as a whole, a role he continues.

Dr. Clendenen has known since he was a young man that he would spend his life working with God’s Word. He once told a friend that his life goal was to “exegete his way through the entire Bible.” Thanks to some 40 years as a committed believer, nearly 20 as the general editor of Holman’s New American Commentary series, and finally as one of the senior-most members of the HCSB translation team, Ray has done exactly that.

Ironically, it was also in his early years that he first crossed paths with Holman CSB general editor Ed Blum. While a student at Rice University, Ray attended the church then pastored by Blum. And after college, Clendenen enrolled in Dallas Theological Seminary where Dr. Blum was his professor of Greek and apologetics.

Through the years, Ray has developed relationships with other outstanding Bible experts and academicians that made his work on the Holman Christian Standard Bible strategic. In his doctoral work at the University of Texas at Arlington, Ray studied with some of the finest linguists in the world, associated with Wycliffe Bible Translators. He was responsible for recruiting most of the team of about 100 translators and reviewers who worked on the Holman CSB.

Throughout the process, he stayed intimately involved in the day-to-day work of translation. Ray reviewed most of the New Testament, did the initial translation of Haggai and Malachi, and reviewed and/or supervised the translation of the rest of the Old Testament.

Although Ray’s never found an “I’d rather be translating the Bible” bumper sticker for his car, he’ll settle for the one about fishing. To balance the ponderous indoor work of Bible translation and other biblical editorial projects, Ray and his son, Jon, have for years headed to Gunnison, Colorado each summer to angle for trout. A sportsman at home, too, most every day at lunchtime, he can be found on the racquetball court. With his wife, Mimi, daughter, Ann, and son, Ray is active in the First Baptist Church of Franklin, Tennessee.

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David R. Shepherd—Executive Editor

Some Abbreviated Remarks

Plenty of “Dr.’s” worked on the Holman CSB but only one “DRS.”

The initials attached to emails, memos, and sticky notes about translation work and became the affectionate way of referring to the translation project’s initiator, prime visionary, corporate protector, and executive editor, David R. Shepherd.

For several years before David Shepherd became head of the Bible department at Broadman & Holman Publishers, a notion had circulated through the company and orbited into a long-term strategic plan that B&H ought to develop a new English translation of Scripture. It wasn’t until David Shepherd took the Bible helm, though, that anyone captured the dream and organized, strategized, and negotiated it into reality.

After an arduous process of exploring options for creating a faithful, readable new translation, Shepherd met Art Farstad who, after completing his work as general editor of the New King James Version, had begun pursuing his personal dream of developing a wholly new Bible translation from the original languages. Numerous cross-country meetings, long distance phone conversations, and written correspondence assured Shepherd and Farstad that the goals of Holman Bible Publishers and Dr. Farstad were nearly identical. In spring of 1998, they formally agreed to continue the translation project together, and Farstad’s work was set to become the Holman Christian Standard Bible. After Dr. Farstad’s unexpected death in September 1998, Shepherd passed the general editor’s torch to then associate general editor, Edwin Blum.

David Shepherd readily calls it a special blessing to pursue his passion for Scripture as a means of earning a livelihood for his other great blessing and passion in life, his family. With Cheri, his wife of 33 years, David has brought eight growing disciples, ages 11 to 31, into the even larger family of God. His two oldest, son Jonathan and daughter Rachel, both attended Shepherd’s alma mater, David Lipscomb College.

After his own graduation from Lipscomb, David Shepherd followed God on a fascinating and fruitful journey. After working for a premiere public relations firm, he founded his own advertising agency. His pre-publishing career then turned to work as the Tennessee representative for Focus on the Family, and in pro-family lobbying at the Tennessee State legislature. His political involvement eventually took him to the White House and a personal meeting with President Ronald Reagan.

In 1993, he entered the Broadman & Holman marketing world as director of the company’s in-house advertising agency. There, he first laid plans to consolidate the Bible department for Broadman & Holman into what is now Holman Bible Publishers. And as a result, there was a DRS in the HCSB.

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Kendell Easley—New Testament Editor and Reviewer of Revelation

Translating with the End in Mind

Dr. Kendell H. Easley served as a New Testament editor of the Holman Christian Standard Bible and reviewer of the book of Revelation.

“I used to be afraid of Revelation,” Dr. Easley volunteers, “but now it’s become almost my favorite Bible book. It’s where the whole story of the Bible leads. Revelation is a complicated book and open to a lot of different interpretations. I hope the new translation clarifies the message and encourages people to take it to heart.”

Easley has written two books about Revelation. The first is the Revelation volume of the Holman New Testament Commentary. The second is Living with the End in Sight, a book of meditations on Revelation featuring the HCSB translation. He is also the author of User Friendly Greek and 52 Words Every Christian Should Know.

Dr. Easley is chairman and professor of New Testament and Greek at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Germantown, Tennessee, near Memphis. “All the students I have right now are going into the ministry,” he says. “I have a stewardship responsibility to them. I want to make learning Greek accessible and rewarding. My saying is: keep the cookies on the bottom shelf.”

He’s also the organist at Mid-America. “How many Greek professors do you know who play the organ?” he asks. “I love it, and I want to thank my mother for making me take lessons all those years—even when I didn’t like them.”

Easley received his B.A. from John Brown University. He holds a M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His wife, Nancy, is director of the graduate program in education at Union University. Their son, Jordan, is a college student.

Dr. Easley was editor of Mid-America Theological Journal from 1993 to 1998. Since 1985, in addition to teaching and writing (and playing) at Mid-America, he has frequently written adult Bible study curriculum for LifeWay Christian Resources. He is also a popular revival and Bible seminar leader.

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Frank Carmical—Editor and Stylist

Always on Mission

For most dedicated Christians, working full-time on a Bible translation would represent a total commitment to the Word. But for Frank Carmical his work on the Holman Christian Standard Bible was only part of his life story.

Though Frank had been with the translation team in the project’s Dallas headquarters since 1994, his work for Christ began more than a decade earlier and already extended around the world. Born in Odessa, Texas, Frank grew up in Houston, where he graduated summa cum laude from Houston Baptist University in 1978. Seven years later he received his Master of Theology with honors from Dallas Theological Seminary, where his studies included five years of New Testament Greek as well as six years of philosophy and apologetics.

While still a graduate student at DTS, Frank began ministering to the Latino community at his own church in the Dallas suburb of Plano, spearheading a program to the Hispanic community and building friendships with immigrant and transient families. His servant heart, command of the Spanish language, and passion for the gospel have led him from there to Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, and Colombia, where he has led revivals, preached in home churches, and literally evangelized on the street corners to those hungry for the message of salvation.

During the later years of his work on the translation, Frank traveled and preached extensively in former Soviet bloc countries, where people who were so long denied freedom to worship were ripe for the Lord’s harvest: Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Over the past 20 years, Frank has carried God’s message to 27 countries on six continents.

Since completion of the Holman Christian Standard Bible, Frank has launched into full-time missions work with the satisfaction of knowing, as he puts it, “that the decisions I made as part of the translation’s editorial team will affect millions of lives and go on long after my death to affect future generations.”

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Duane Garrett—Old Testament Section Editor and Textual Reviewer

Born (Again) to Be a Theologian

When Duane Garrett was converted at the age of 15, he realized almost immediately that his calling was to become a teacher of theology. Today, he fulfills that role as a seminary professor and considers his work as an Old Testament section editor for the Holman Christian Standard Bible to have been one of the highlights of his remarkable career.

Garrett was born in New Orleans and grew up in Texas. Pursuing his study of Scripture, he attended Rice University and in 1976, graduated with a B.A. cum laude in classical Greek and Latin literature. He then enrolled in Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he taught undergraduate Greek while earning his Masters of Divinity, which he received magna cum laude. In 1978, newly wed to the former Patricia Brown, Duane moved back to Texas, where he served as pastor of Marquez Baptist Church while completing the Ph.D. in religion at Baylor University.

Finding a new outlet for his passion for theological studies, Garrett joined the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Between 1982 and 1985, he lived in Seoul, Korea as a member of the Korea Baptist Mission, teaching seminary courses, pastoring a local church, and working in various committees with the mission.

Dr. Garrett returned to the States to serve as missionary-in-residence at Houston Baptist University for one year and then as assistant professor of Old Testament at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary for two. In 1988, Duane re-joined the Foreign Mission Board, this time serving as a fraternal representative to Canada. Beyond his primary assignment as a seminary teacher, Garrett also used his gifts as librarian, registrar, pastor, and as chairman or member of various committees.

Today, Dr. Garrett continues his work as an assistant professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and three children, Melissa, Kristin, and Jesse.

Throughout his two decades of teaching and five years of pastoral experience, Dr. Garrett has found time to contribute to a variety of publications, including numerous theological journals, the Holman Bible Handbook, and the New American Commentary series. He is also the author of a number of books including Rethinking Genesis, Angels and the New Spirituality, and A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew.

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Stanley Porter—New Testament Editor and Reviewer

Worldwide Translator

Even if Stanley Porter had been the only international member of the Holman CSB translation team (which he wasn’t), he alone added a multi-national flair to the group. Born and raised in California, he made a stopover in Illinois to attend Trinity Evangelical Divinity School after which he completed his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield in England. Then he moved back to California to teach at Biola University, followed by a stint on the faculty at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. Sometime later, he became the Research Professor in New Testament at the University of Surrey Roehampton near London, and for the past few years, he’s taken up residence in Ontario, Canada where he’s the Professor of New Testament, and Principal and Dean of McMaster Divinity College.

Whew!

Between transatlantic moves, Dr. Porter was an invaluable review scholar for the Holman Christian Standard Bible. He focused on the book of Acts, combing through the translation work originally done by the Art Farstad team before Dr. Farstad’s death in 1998. One of the few experts in the newly developing discipline of Translation Theory, Stanley surfaced nuances of word meaning that raised even further the high bar for translation work on the HCSB New Testament.

Besides his obvious love of Scripture and related scholarly work, Dr. Porter is passionate about his teaching. “My primary ministry,” he says, “Is one of education.” Each of his life changes has been carefully calculated to further his pursuit of that calling. He is always enthusiastic about connecting his scholarly work with preparation of people for ministry.

Dr. Porter also has a very special ministry partner: Mrs. Porter. Early on, she studied Greek, so the two of them could work together reading, editing, and even publishing ancient manuscripts. Through the years, they’ve taught together, leading courses as specialized as “Hymns and Creeds in the New Testament.” (Wendy Porter is also a trained musicologist and expert on Renaissance music.)

As with many members of the Holman CSB translation team, Stanley Porter’s initial contact with the project came through HCSB associate general editor, Ray Clendenen. Their common love of linguistics had fostered a long-time friendship, kept fresh through regular meetings at various scholarly conferences. And their work on the HCSB provided an added bond that both hope will long outlive them.

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