User:Theologian Luiz Sayao

Luiz Alberto Teixeira Sayão (São Paulo, April 19, 1963) is a Brazilian Baptist pastor, theologian, academic, linguist and Hebrew.

Luiz Sayão (as he is better known) is a well-known Brazilian biblical and Hebrew scholar who had his training in linguistics and Hebrew from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He worked on the translation of several versions of the Bible in Portuguese.

In 2000, Luiz Sayão completed his master's degree in Hebrew Language, Literature and Jewish Culture at USP, with the dissertation: The Problem of Evil in Habakkuk's Book. He taught Biblical Hebrew and other related theological and biblical disciplines at the Servant of Christ Seminary (São Paulo), at São Paulo Baptist Theological College, at Young San Theological Seminary (of Korean origin) and at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, in the Boston region. .

After being a professor of the biblical field in these seminars in Brazil and in the USA, Sayão was invited by the Baptist Brazilian Convention to be director and professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary of Southern Brazil (Faculdade Batista do Rio de Janeiro) from 2013.