Angelo Traina also known as A. B. Traina, was a Biblical scholar, best known for his emphasis on restoring "Semitic proper names to their Aramaic and Hebrew forms".

Traina was born in Sicily

Sicily

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, into a Catholic family. They later moved to New York City

New York City

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, where he left home at the age of 13, ending up in Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

. Part of a group of drinking and gambling youths, he was part of a conspiracy to disrupt a revival meeting, but instead converted, joining a Protestant church. He later worked for Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson , also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles, California evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church...

.

His Biblical studies resulted in his translating the The Sacred Name New Testament (1950), with C. O. Dodd

Clarence Orvil Dodd

Clarence Orvil Dodd , often known as C. O. Dodd, was an American author and magazine editor and an Elder of a particular Church of God denomination church in Salem, West Virginia in the early 20th century....

, the first example of a sacred name Bible

Sacred name Bibles

The term Sacred Name Bibles and the term sacred-name versions are used in general sources to refer to editions of the Bible that are usually connected with the Sacred Name Movement...

. He went on to translate the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures also, in The Holy Name Bible containing the Holy Name Version of the Old and New Testaments (1963). A fifth edition was published in 1989 by the Scripture Research Association, based in New Jersey.

He also wrote many pamphlets and articles, many of which were published in the magazine The Faith. Traina was one of the early figures in the Sacred Name Movement

Sacred Name Movement

The Sacred Name Movement is a movement within Adventism in Christianity, propagated by Clarence Orvil Dodd from the 1930s, that claims to seek to conform Christianity to its "Hebrew Roots" in practice, belief and worship. The best known distinction of the SNM is its advocacy of the use of the...

, having been a featured speaker at the 1938 Feast of Tabernacles Camp Meeting near Warrior

Warrior, Alabama

Warrior is a city in Jefferson and Blount County in the U.S. state of Alabama. At the 2000 census the population was 3,169.-History:The city takes its name from the Warrior coal fields, which J. T. Pierce opened in 1872 in the vicinity. The coal fields were named, in turn, after the Black Warrior...

, Alabama

Alabama

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, an event which is seen by some as the launching of the movement.

External links

• http://www.yaim.org/Traina/elder_a_b__traina.htm