A short post, pointing to a useful resource about one English translation of the Bible.
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Reading the Passion Bible
Tag: Bible Translation
Four reasons why we need to translate the Bible and not just teach everyone English.
In order to accurately translate a word, you have to look at the whole sentence or paragraph that it occurs in; it’s not enough just to look in the dictionary to see what the word could mean and take your choice.
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The Proper Place for Technology
In which I let someone else do the ranting…. mostly. What is the place of technology in mission?
Let’s stop using the word “literally” when we talk about Bible translation; it literally makes my blood boil!
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Translation by Computer (Sort Of)
The dream of an instant system to translate the Bible into minority languages is still a long way off; but there is no doubt, that technology, wisely used, is a huge help to translation work.
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Eating an Unpeeled Banana
An excellent video about eating unpeeled bananas – or reading the Bible without a translation.
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The Bible Translation Process
A rather good video about Bible translation.
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You Know What? I Just Don’t Care
In the same way that we talk about Bible translation, but only refer to one northern-European language, we talk about mission, but fail to see beyond our neighbourhood.
In Official Malagasy the word hazo means ‘tree’ or ‘wood’, but in the Tandroy language, the only meaning of hazo is ‘coffin’!