Equipping the Church to Translate the Word
G. F. Main’s Forgotten Reformer is an excellent and much-needed biography of Myles Coverdale (1488-1569), a leading figure in the English Reformation. Main has organized his biography into twelve chapters, with the first two describing the historical backdrop to Coverdale’s life and the final one summarizing his major contributions. The intervening nine …
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It’s not uncommon to hear today that all Bible translations have value and should be accepted and even used by everyone. Some even claim it is divisive to say otherwise. What does it mean for every English version to have value? In short, every translation offers something of value to the readers, especially something that one can’t get in another …
I recently purchased a New Testament, newly translated for a people with no Scriptures in their language. It was exciting to see the culmination of so many years of work. My heart sank, though, when I turned to the Gospel of John and saw that it was the Gospel of Yaaya. Who is Yaaya? Could this be yet another Muslim Idiom Translation? 1. What is a …
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Miles Coverdale made many lasting contributions to the English Reformation. He is well known for his work on the English Bible. After William Tyndale's arrest, Coverdale continued the work of translation and produced the Coverdale Bible in 1535, the first complete English Bible of the era. During this period, he also produced a book of hymns based on …
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Who is the Bible for? Who are the intended readers of a Bible translation? To use a more technical term, who is the ‘audience’ in translation? For centuries, it was generally believed that one translation was sufficient and that the translation was for the entire church and, by extension, even for an entire Christian nation. However, today, we have …
