Kenneth Samuel Wuest (1893 – December 27, 1961) was an

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scholar of the mid-twentieth century.

Early life and education

Wuest was born in 1893 on the north side of Chicago, where he lived for most of his life. He earned his A.B. in History and Greek from

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(1922), graduated from Moody Bible Institute (1924), and was awarded an honorary

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from Wheaton College (1955). He married his Moody Bible Institute classmate Jeannette Irene Scholl in 1924.

Career

Wuest taught for one year starting in 1924 at the Freewill Baptist Seminary in Ayden, North Carolina, then for several years starting in 1925 at the Brookes Bible Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, before joining the faculty of

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in 1929, where he served as professor of New Testament Greek. Over the next few decades, he published more than a dozen books on the New Testament. Wuest has been cited as an influential

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scholar. Wuest is credited as one of the translators of the original

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(NASB). He later went on to produce his own English translation of the New Testament, the Wuest Expanded Translation (WET), based on Nestle's critical text. In his translation of the New Testament, Wuest attempts to make the original Greek more accessible to the

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reader by drawing out (in translation) the full variety of possible meanings and translations of the underlying Greek words. Wuest joined the

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in 1957, and retired from teaching in 1958, but continued his writing and lecturing until his death on December 27, 1961.

Publications

The

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lists the following published works for Kenneth Samuel Wuest: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wuest, Kenneth 1893 births 1961 deaths Translators of the Bible into English Moody Bible Institute alumni American biblical scholars New Testament scholars 20th-century translators