Helps for Translators, 8 vols. (UBS Technical Helps)

Robert G. Bratcher (1920–2010) received his ThM and ThD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several volumes in the UBS Handbook Series, coauthor of A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution, and served as a translator of the Good News Bible for the American Bible Society.

John A. Thompson (1947–2002) was the first director of the Australian Institute of Archaeology in Melbourne, Australia. He lectured at the School of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Melbourne, and was lecturer in Old Testament studies at the Baptist Theological College of New South Wales. He held degrees from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne, and received a doctorate in Oriental studies from the University of Cambridge.

Ernst R. Wendland has taught at the Lutheran Seminary in Lusaka, Zambia since 1968 and is a retired United Bible Societies translation consultant. He is an external examiner in Zambian languages at the University of Zambia and a visiting professor in the Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is the author of numerous studies on the Bantu languages of South Central Africa, biblical exegesis, literary-poetic analysis, rhetorical criticism, and translation theory and practice.

Lynell Zogbo is an author, editor, and African language specialist. She served in Africa for 28 years as a consultant for the United Bible Societies.

Eugene A. Nida (1914–2011) was a renowned Bible translator and linguist. He worked with the American Bible Society and was a founding member of Wycliffe Bible Translators. Nida is considered a pioneer of linguistics and translation theory, and the developer of the theory of dynamic-equivalence in Bible translation. He coauthored the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, and wrote over a dozen other works on translation, missions, and linguistics.

Johannes P. Louw (1932–2011) was a linguistic scholar and expert in Bible translation. He was the editor of Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains and created the South African discourse analysis approach to linguistics. Throughout his career he contributed to numerous publications including the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), Harper’s Bible Dictionary, and the Oxford Companion to the Bible.

Robert G. Bratcher (1920–2010) received his ThM and ThD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several volumes in the UBS Handbook Series, coauthor of A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution, and served as a translator of the Good News Bible for the American Bible Society.

Robert G. Bratcher (1920–2010) received his ThM and ThD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several volumes in the UBS Handbook Series, coauthor of A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution, and served as a translator of the Good News Bible for the American Bible Society.

Robert G. Bratcher (1920–2010) received his ThM and ThD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several volumes in the UBS Handbook Series, coauthor of A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution, and served as a translator of the Good News Bible for the American Bible Society.

Robert G. Bratcher (1920–2010) received his ThM and ThD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several volumes in the UBS Handbook Series, coauthor of A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution, and served as a translator of the Good News Bible for the American Bible Society.