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Academic Worship
1–2 minutesNext week we’ll finish the first session of the fall term at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics where we’re completing our last bit of academic training before heading overseas to start our assignment with Wycliffe. Our schedule has been pretty packed the last four weeks as we’re in class most of the day and then have homework every evening. Plus, we have our two year-old princess Poppy whose current favorite refrain is, “What do now, Mummy?” And, let’s not forget we’re about to have another baby! We have felt a bit overwhelmed at times, especially the evenings when it’s 9pm…
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The Legacy of the Bible in Translation
1–2 minutesThe latest edition of The World in Words podcast features the legacy of the Bible in translation. Here’s a direct link to the MP3 of the episode (and here’s the podcast’s RSS feed if you’d like to subscribe). The first half highlights the lasting impact of the King James Version while the second introduces erstwhile Christian missionary and translator Daniel Everett who walked away not only from Bible translation and missions, but also from Christianity and regrettably, his wife. Recent technological advances are speeding up the process of Bible translation, not without controversy. Through it all, Bible translation and linguistic research have…
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Translation Is Too Important to Be Left to Translators Alone
1–2 minutesTranslators are usually the first theologians in any language or community. They have to grapple with all the complex problems arising out of the need to express the ancient and eternal message of the Bible in their own language. They face the challenge of how to translate Biblical concepts, ideas, practices, festivals, rituals, spiritual beings, cultural artifacts, metaphors, beliefs, etc. in terms that make sense in the local vernacular. How to do this meaningfully, accurately, faithfully, clearly and with native genius and natural rhythms is the challenge that faces every translator. In so doing the translator is a pioneer who…