Equipping the Church to Translate the Word
Over the last 60 years, Bible translators have removed words, phrases, and verses from their translations of the Bible. These deleted portions are regarded as repetitive and an impediment to readability. One case is the translation of Numbers 7:12-83. This passage has been handled in different ways, from literally following the Hebrew to removing 55 …
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The Scriptures are authoritative, but does their authority have any significance for their translation? Many Bible translators today affirm the authority of the Bible in their doctrinal statement, saying, for instance, that "they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life" or that they speak "with supreme authority in all matters of belief and …
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Today, fewer and fewer Bible translators are translating the Bible. What are they doing instead? They are producing written summaries and paraphrastic or free renderings of Scripture. Many are also producing audio retellings of the Bible. These works may have great benefit to those with and without Scripture in their language, but are they Bible …
More and more Bible translations are being produced in English, and every one is "accurate" and "faithful" to the source. Even translations that are the most free or paraphrastic still claim to be faithful to the original languages. No translation describes itself as inaccurate or less than faithful. It appears that accuracy is highly valued but also …
Over the last thirty years, a growing number of Bible translators have defined success in translation in terms of how well their translations achieve a specific purpose for their intended audiences. Today translators often define their success in terms of their own goals, often outlined in a document called a translation brief. With this approach, it …
