Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 30

“These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:31 (ESV) ThaTYouMaYBelieve Although many of their names are unknown T he Scriptures of Christ’s church is a book written over a span of 1,500 years—from about 1400 B.C. to A.D. 90—by some forty authors from three continents, in three languages. Yet its one, unified message continues to have enormous relevance for our day. Dr. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. ’55, B.D. ’58 Since the middle of the twentieth century, the work of Bible translating and publishing has increased in large measure due to the output of the Wheaton family, with their key endeavor of bringing the Word of God into the language and idiom of our contemporary world while maintaining the accuracy of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. Special thanksgiving to our Lord should go first of all for the scores, if not hundreds of alumni missionaries who have translated the Scriptures into the native languages of peoples around the globe. Others—alumni, faculty, and staff—have been among those serving in the production of Bible translations and paraphrases, 28     W I N T E R   2 0 1 3