Jon Riding

Jon Riding is now semi-retired after 23 years service at the Bible Society. He has taught New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew in the UK and overseas and spent many fascinating hours working with Bible translation teams all over the world. He teaches Greek, Hebrew and Biblical Studies for various institutions and is Director of the Sherborne Abbey Insight Programme (www.insight.sherborneabbey.com) and Research Director for 7000++ (www.7000plus.org)

Bible in the Raw

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Christians (at least in the West) expect to encounter God in Scripture in their own language and sharing the same preoccupations. It is good that we have such wonderful resources and so many translations from which to choose but there is much to be learnt from the original texts. We need a little strangeness.