Randall Buth is director of the Biblical Hebrew Ulpan and a lecturer at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Home for Bible Translators. He is a member of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research. Buth received his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles (1987). His dissertation, "Word Order in Aramaic from the Perspectives of Functional Grammar and Discourse Analysis," was written under the supervision of Professor Stanislav Segert. Buth's research has been published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics, Maarav, and elsewhere. Buth has dedicated his life to communicating Jesus' teaching to other cultures and languages. From 1977 to 1996 he lived in Africa and served as a translator and translation consultant with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and as a translation consultant with the United Bible Societies. Buth is the author of Living Biblical Hebrew for Everyone.

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