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Asia Pacific Theological Seminary (Baugio City, The Philippines)

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Rev. Maxwell Banda Chiwoko was born on the 18th of January 1992. He was ordained as a pastor in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod in 2016. From 2016 to date, he has been teaching Biblical Hebrew language, Old Testament Studies, and Research Methods at Nkhoma University, Malawi. He has a Licentiate in Theology from Zomba Theological College, Malawi (2014); a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the University of Malawi (2016), Postgraduate Certificate in the Translation of the Hebrew Bible from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2018); Master of Theology majoring in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics from South African Theological Seminary (2021). He is currently completing his Ph.D. at SATS. From 2013–2017 he served as Biblical Languages Reviewer and Editor of the Mau a Mulungu mu Chichewa cha Lero Bible translation project with the Biblica International. He is married to Alice and has two children: Hillel Theophilus and La’el Maralise.

Prof. Charles Owiredu is a Langham Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from Durham University, England. He is a theologian, an educator, and an anthropologist. His area of interest is in Biblical Studies and African Thought. He is a faculty member at Daniel Institute, Central University. He has taught Biblical Languages in several universities

Mr. Frans-Johan Pienaar is a native-born South African currently completing his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies: New Testament at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He lives in Virginia Beach with his wife, Marionette and their two sons.

Prof. Dan Lioy (Ph.D., North-West University) is a Senior Research Academic at South African Theological Seminary (in South Africa), a Professor of biblical theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology (in South Dakota, USA), and a Dissertation Advisor in the D.Min. program at Portland Seminary (in Oregon, USA). Professor Lioy is active in local church ministry, being rostered with the North American Lutheran Church. He is widely published, including a number of academic monographs, peer-reviewed journal articles, and church resource products.

Prof. Ernst Wendland has a Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former instructor at Lusaka Lutheran Seminary (1968–2022) and a United Bible Societies Translation Consultant in Zambia, he currently serves as a thesis supervisor at SATS and several other academic institutions. His research interests include various aspects of Bible translation as well as structural, stylistic, poetic, and rhetorical studies in biblical texts and the Bantu languages of South-East Africa.