Randall Buth (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987) is academic provost at The Whole Word Institute in Jerusalem, where he runs programmes to train persons in the biblical languages through communicative language (immersion) pedagogies, particularly for persons involved in Bible translation in minority languages around the world. For twenty years, Buth worked in Bible translation projects with the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the United Bible Societies (1977–1996), until he began working on communicative language pedagogies for Hebrew and Greek, and in 2001 he founded the Biblical Language Center. His publications appear in the fields of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Biblical Studies, Linguistics, and Language Pedagogy.