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Bible Translation

Translation is no Joke

There is an excellent, and rather amusing, post at Better Bibles Blog which illustrates some basic principles of Bible translation. You don’t often get cartoons in Bible translation articles – so you really should read this one.

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Bible Translation Theology

The Trinity and Bible Translation

This post is by way of thinking out loud. I’d value any comments you might have on what I say. The Bible describes God as a three persons in one – the Trinity. It is unreasonable for creations, such as ourselves, to expect that we will fully understand the creator God and certainly the Trinity […]

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Bible Translation Computing/Internet

PhoneyBible

PhoneyBible is a superb little application for you mobile phone which was developed by a friend of our Sam’s. The website says: PhoneyBible is avaible in 34 translations. It allows you to start reading from any book, chapter or verse. From there you can scroll forward or back, or choose somewhere new to read. PhoneyBible remembers […]

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Madagascar

Translation Workshop Week 3

Well, the weather seems to be warming up somewhat – we are no longer huddled in jumpers and jackets in the mornings. On Saturday we had the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and go walking in the hills about 20 miles south of Antsirabe. It was really good to get out of town and to […]

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Bible Translation Madagascar

Translation travails

I suppose 6 deg C isn’t that cold – but it certainly feels it without heating! The days are starting cold and if there is a cloudless sky, it warms up to 22 or 23 deg, cooling again as soon as the sun goes down around 6 pm. Coming from England, these are temperatures I’m […]

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Bible Translation Mission

Better Bibles Blog: The foolish things of this world

Suzanne McCarthy has just made a terrific post at Better Bibles Blog which, to my mind, captures some of the real missional spirit of Bible translation. In the end it isn’t all about technical questions or whether the NIV is better than the ESV, it’s about our God reaching out to his broken world. Link […]

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Bible Translation

Better Bibles Blog: Translating the genitive construction

There is an excellent post at Better Bibles Blog on translating Greek genitives. This may not sound the most exciting subject under the sun – but it is one of them. A genitive is a possessive structure such as ‘coals of fire’ (to quote the AV) and Greek uses them all over the place in […]

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Bible Translation Christian Life Mission Observations

Missiology and Bible Translation

Kirk Franklin the Director of Wycliffe Australia has written a series of interesting articles on missiology and Bible translation which are available online. As far as I can tell, there is no index page which links to all of the articles at once – though an archive is promised. You have to go to the […]

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Language In the Bible

African Bible Commentary

Many thanks to Andrew Jones (tallskinnykiwi) for posting information about the New Africa Bible Commentary. This publication by SIM is described as being the first one-volume Bible commentary to be written in Africa by Africans for African churches. It certainly is good news to see a commentary written by Africans and addressing the questions that […]

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Do Not Use

Learning to Speak Human

Bible Translation is essentially about communicating the Gospel; finding ways to re-express the eternal truths of the Scriptures in a new languages. However, communicating the Gospel is not merely a task for the specialist, it is something that every Christian is called to be involved in. Brian Russell has started a series of posts on […]