Interview with Douglas J. Moo
Douglas J. Moo
If you’ve kept an eye on the headlines at all you are aware that 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the NIV, an enormously successful and influential Bible translation. To mark the celebration here at Books At a Glance, we are very pleased to have our good friend Dr. Douglas J. Moo, Chair of the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT) here to talk to us about their work.
Books At a Glance (Fred Zaspel):
First, congratulations are in order: I was so happy to see the publication of Studies in the Pauline Epistles: Essays in Honor of Douglas J. Moo. It’s a wonderful collection of essays, and it is honor where honor is due. Hearty congratulations for this well-deserved recognition of your outstanding – and faithful – career in New Testament studies.
The NIV is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, but the NIV was not released until 1978. Would you explain this seeming discrepancy for us?
Doug Moo:
The celebration focuses on the conception of the NIV. The critical formative meetings that started the process leading to the NIV were in 1964 and 1965. We think it appropriate to honor these dates, since one of our purposes is to focus on the climate in which the NIV came to be and to celebrate the scholars who put so much hard work into the project...