Steven Paas (b. 1942) is a Dutch theologian and researcher. He was a commissioned army officer, a journalist, a secondary school teacher, a seminary lecturer and a Presbyterian minister in successively The Netherlands and Malawi: Trained at the Royal Military Academy in Breda, at the Intelligence language school in Harderwijk and shaped for the teaching profession at various colleges. Paas graduated from the University of Amsterdam (MTh) and the Theological University of Apeldoorn (PhD-Theology). His present fields of research are: (1) Lexicography of Chichewa, the most prominent vernacular language of Central Africa (see: www.chichewadictionary.org and http://translate.chichewadictionary.org ) and (2) Israelism, Christian Zionism and other views of the relationship between the Church and Israel. Latest books: -Dictionary/ Mtanthauziramawu Chichewa/ Chinyanja (into and from English], fourth edition, CLAIM Mabuku/ FHFM: Blantyre/ Veenendaal 2013 [ISBN: 978-99908-86-05-4 and 978-99960-11-16-0]. -Israëlvisies in beweging: Gevolgen voor Kerk, geloof en theologie, Kampen: Brevier 2014 [ISBN: 978-94-91583-35-3].