Category Archives: Bible Translation

Lifeway bookstores will sell NIV 2011

February 15, 2012 – 9:47 pm

Scot McKnight blogs that Lifeway bookstores will sell the updated NIV (2011).

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How Not to Do Bible Translation

February 8, 2012 – 5:52 pm

I’m an Alaskan. I have a special interest in Bible translation of Alaska Native languages. I just discovered a blog post titled “How Not to Do Bible Translation.” The post begins: An Alaskan radio station is reporting on the dire reception of a new Tlingit (an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of America) encyclopedia.  “The [...]

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translation of divine familial terms

January 30, 2012 – 7:37 am

C. S[tirling]. Bartholomew has referred to a critically important topic for Bible translation today, in the Share section of this blog. Feel free to read the article to which Stirling linked to see how intensely the issue of translation of divine familiar terms is discussed. There is a great deal of misunderstanding in that article [...]

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The Truth New Testament: A Review

January 28, 2012 – 4:30 pm

This is a follow-up to my post yesterday The Truth New Testament by Colin Urquhart. Yesterday I introduced this translation to readers here. Today I am reviewing the book and its text. The edition pictured here is the standard version, which, from the online sample, has very few footnotes. I have in my hand a borrowed copy [...]

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The Truth New Testament by Colin Urquhart

January 27, 2012 – 6:13 pm

For more than thirty years I have been involved in various manifestations of the Charismatic Movement here in the UK, and more recently also in the USA. In that time I have seen many good things and also some less than good. Very often among those less good things has been Charismatic preachers’ use of [...]

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Tom Wright’s New Testament Translation

January 20, 2012 – 12:20 am

Scot McKnight likes Tom Wright’s new New Testament translation: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/01/19/tom-wrights-new-testament-translation/ Fr. Charles Erlandson, a fellow Anglican, likes Wright’s translation but finds a number of translation decisions he disagrees with. See Erlandson’s review on this page: http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-New-Testament-Contemporary-Translation/dp/0062064916/ref=cm_cr-mr-title

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fulfillment

January 18, 2012 – 7:55 pm

How would you respond to these questions? 1. Are you fulfilled in your job? 2. Is your life fulfilling? 3. Are your days fulfilling? 4. When your days are fulfilled, what will you do next? (After you think about these questions and comment on them, if you wish, look up translations of 2 Samuel 7:12 [...]

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Translating Hebrew nefesh

January 17, 2012 – 6:52 am

Joel Hoffman’s latest post is on translation of the Hebrew word nefesh. As usual, it’s another good post from a scholar who demonstrates that a good background in linguistics as well as the biblical languages can combine to produce better Bibles (in translation).

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Common English Bible sets record

January 7, 2012 – 7:18 pm

http://oregonfaithreport.com/2011/12/common-english-bible-sets-record/

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new Jesus book divides Jamaicans

December 26, 2011 – 4:03 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16285462 HT: David Ker Translating the Bible into the vernacular often divides people, sometimes deeply. Why?

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