Thrilled to get this email in my inbox, I had to pass along the preliminary details for Bible Translation Conference 2013. I had such a great time at Bible Translation Conference 2011 last year and offered some reflections afterward. I would strongly encourage you to attend. I am pleased to give you this information about […]
Sorry for the nonsense title of this post. You’ll understand why shortly. Now on to the subject at hand. Have you seen the latest video from Wycliffe USA called “Translating for Understanding”? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kPwHq7pxY] You can easily understand why the creators of the video chose such a well-known verse as the example passage to be […]
The following article from SIL’s Journal of Translation was incredibly helpful to me in providing contemporary context for Bible translation theories, especially meaning-based translation. Inside, you’ll find discussions and the history of terms like dynamic equivalency, meaning-based translation, functional equivalency, optimal equivalency, relevance theory, frames of reference, and skopostheorie, among helpful bibliographies and charts and graphs. The article, like the […]
Today I discovered The 1997 Vatican Norms for Translation of Biblical Texts, a series of six statements prepared by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) and meant to help American bishops approach inclusive language in the lectionary. Of particular interest is the third point, which reads, “The translation of Scripture should faithfully reflect the […]
