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- BMBrian MigliazzaMar 10, 2022
2023 BT Conference - 13-17 October 2023
We are pleased to announce that the dates of the next BT Conference are October 13-17, 2023. Please add these dates to your planning calendar for next year. The conference will have a hybrid format with both in-person an…
- JZJost ZetzscheMar 8, 2022
Article in Christianity Today about Bible translation
Dear all: There is a new article in the large US publication Christianity Today talking about Bible translation and mentioning the Translation Insights and Perspectives tool: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/mar…
- BMBrian MigliazzaMar 2, 2022
Translation News - March 2022
View this email in your browser International Translation Services (ITS) works in collaboration with colleagues in SIL and other agencies to creatively steward and advance the translation practices, tools, methods, and t…
- PPaulFeb 28, 2022
Sixth Release: Key Term of the Old Testament
KTOT Sixth Release Dick Kroneman A person wearing glasses Description automatically generated with low confidenceThe Key Terms of the Old Testament (KTOT) team announces the sixth release of 10 articles, bringing the tot…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 28, 2022
The Spontaneous Origins of Language
Excerpt: For more than a half-century, the language sciences have proceeded from the theory that order came first. Noam Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistics, proposed in the 1980s that each child is born with a gen…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 25, 2022
Language Death—The Case of Akkadian
By Johannes Hackl -- Friends of ASOR, Feb. 2022, Vol. X, No. 2. Excerpt: The phenomenon of language death is as old as the recorded history of the world’s languages, if not as old as language itself. Languages affected b…
- MEMaría Elena González YáñezFeb 21, 2022
El libro Evangelio de Juan
https://biblialsm.com/menu-juan-1-21.html Me alegre mucho, Somos traducción Lengua de Señas Mexicana para Juan comunidad de Sorda en Mexico Hay los dibujos y señas. ustedes ven a la página. me doy gracias a Dios guía. mu…
- MEMaría Elena González YáñezFeb 21, 2022
Buena noticia
La pgina de nueva www.biblialsm.com La comunidad de Sordos en Mxico.
- ASAaron ShryockFeb 21, 2022
John Calvin's Defense of Bible Translation
When John Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, in 1535, he met a group of French reformers engaged in producing the first Protestant translation of the Bible in French. He was asked to write a preface and eventually wrote…
- ERElizabeth RobarFeb 18, 2022
Help adapt exegetical materials for Psalms
The project Psalms: Layer by Layer is preparing to launch its first pilot materials for Psalms 1-6 and 150. The materials visually present an exegetical analysis of the psalms, including grammar (morphosyntax), semantics…
- JLJochanan LoewensteinFeb 16, 2022
Learn Biblical Hebrew LIVE from Israelis
Jerusalem Seminary's Hebrew for the Nations has taught Biblical Hebrew to two cohorts of Bible Translators and consultants in 2020 and 2021, with each cohort being taught by two Israeli Hebrew for the Nations certified i…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 16, 2022
Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?
By Shayla Love, February 11, 2022 Excerpt: Research now suggests that our languages are riddled with iconicity, and that it may play a role in language evolution, and how we learn and process language. Along with this ev…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 12, 2022
Bible Gateway Removes The Passion Translation
Excerpt: Translation versus paraphrase Simmons and his publisher describe TPT as a translation instead of a paraphrase because Simmons and his partners worked to develop the text from Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic manuscrip…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 10, 2022
An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years.
By Alizeh Kohari 8 February 2022 • Karachi, Pakistan An interesting article, perhaps with some relevance for Bible translation. Here is a little introduction: "When \[Jiaming Luo\] became a computer science doctoral stud…
- EWernst wendlandFeb 4, 2022
Nigeria’s Newest Bible Translation Started with Missionary Lepers
After the gospel came to a small community in northeast Nigeria, two men on two different continents spent five decades translating Scripture into the Kamwe language. REBECCA HOPKINS|FEBRUARY 2, 2022 -- VIEW AT: https://…
- JZJost ZetzscheFeb 1, 2022
New intro video for TIPs
Dear all: We have produced a new introductory video for the Translation Insights & Perspectives tool: https://tips.translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TIPsAnim.mp4 (You can also find it on the TIPs homepage @ ht…
- BMBrian MigliazzaFeb 1, 2022
Ivan Lowe (1922-2021)
Ivan Lowe (1922-2021) SIL Brazil & Global Ivan is one who keeps the academic fires of SIL burning. He keeps reminding us that part of our God given task is the study of linguistics. Our wonderful friend and colleague, Iv…
- PKPhil KingFeb 1, 2022
BT Training and Development COP on Cross Cultural Mentoring
Hi everyone, Just to let you know the next Bible Translation Training and Development Community of Practice will be on Thursday 10th February at 7.30 GMT and again at 16.30 GMT. The topic will be on 'Cross-cultural Mento…
- BMBrian MigliazzaFeb 1, 2022
Translation News - Feb 2022
View this email in your browser International Translation Services (ITS) works in collaboration with colleagues in SIL and other agencies to creatively steward and advance the translation practices, tools, methods, and t…
- ACAndrew CaseFeb 1, 2022
The Psalms: Layer by Layer
Listen here: https://anchor.fm/workingfortheword/episodes/The-Psalms-Layer-by-Layer---with-Katie-Frost-and-Dr--Elizabeth-Robar-e1d9k4t It’s no secret that the book of Psalms is one of the darlings of the Church, and has…