Perry Oakes Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I provide training in translation principles for translators and those who check translations. I also write and edit content for the translation resources and software tools.

Dallas, Tx

I teach Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament for graduate students in training to translate the Bible into the minority languages of the world.

Dallas, Tx

I help shape translation-related corporate policy, verify translations for accuracy of certain key terms, and develop training materials for mother-tongue translators and consultants.

Fort Worth, Tx

I teach various classes to those in the MA, MDiv, and ThM programs as needed, including Old Testament Survey courses and upper level courses in Biblical Hebrew Exegesis.

Dallas, Tx And Various Other Locations, As Necessary.

I provide training, guidance, research, and exegetical checking for those developing tools to help Bible translators. I also train translators and translation consultants, as well as provide translation consulting for Bible translations in the final stages of editing.

I made contact with a remote people group in Northwest Panama, built relationships, earned their trust, lived among them, analyzed their language, proposed an alphabet, and established a program of Bible translation and literacy.

Ph.D., Old Testament

Ma, Linguistics

Ma, Theology

Ba, Biblical Literature, Spanish

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