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Died: Larry Walker, NIV Translator Who Loved Bible Details


Commitment to accuracy and inerrancy carried him through controversy.
Daniel Silliman|
Image: Courtesy of the Walker family / Edits by Mallory Rentsch
Larry Walker, the last living translator of the original team of scholars who produced the New International Version of the Bible, died on March 8 at age 88.
Walker was a Hebrew scholar and a Semitic languages specialist who used his skills in the extinct Amorite language of Ugaritic to shed light on the Old Testament, illuminating the details of everything from the “trading ships” of Isaiah 2:16 to the “darkest valley” of Psalm 23:4. He cared deeply about accuracy and specifics and believed a commitment to the doctrine of inerrancy could serve as the basis for the highest quality of scholarship. ....

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