Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation

Sefaria: A living library of Jewish texts.

"Sefaria" is a free collection of Jewish texts, that goes from the Hebrew Bible to the Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar and different rabbinic commentaries in Hebrew and English. People can contribute with articles or translating.…

UNCLEAN: Richard Beck's Psychology of Disgust and Bible Translation

I am wondering are there are any translators or consultants that have begun to use recent research on disgust and purity mentalities as a key to understand Biblical notions of purity and impurity? Let's talk

Linguistics Greek Verb Conference for NT Exegetes

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Moral and Ritual Purity: A True Divide?

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Lost in Translation (2003-TTW)

Another in a number of papers I wrote trying to understand what I now call the negotiation of the self as the basis for cognition and communication. Here is the Power Point presentation that went with the paper: Extracte…

Mary Douglas and beyond (2009-TTW)

The PP is most accessible: The PDF is the complete paper: And just as everyone should have a chance to grow old and wise gracefully, everyone also deserves to be remembered as they looked in their youth: Extracted text f…

The Role of Culture in Translation (2000-TTW)

Sometimes it is interesting to see where ideas came from originally, and how differently they come out later. This paper was the beginning of what later was the chapter in the book Bible Translation: Frames of Reference.…

Textual problems in the Hebrew Bible

I wrote this back in 1997 for a UBS TTW conference. But I believe that this topic remains relevant to Bible translators today. The Hebrew font display is messed up in the online version at points (see Dan 11.6), but if y…

"The east" in the biblical text

(Paraphrasing from Spanish-Fausto can correct me): \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 1) Is 'east' to be taken (sometimes, always?) literally in the Hebrew Bible (for example in relation to Eden, Cain, etc.)? 2)…

"I have always loved the Holy Tongue" by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg

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‘Novum Testamentum a nobis versum: The Essence of Erasmus’ Edition of the New Testament’

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/1015/279\_097.pdf?sequence=1

The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World

http://media.sabda.org/alkitab-2/PDF%20Books/00011%20Reventlow%20The%20Authority%20of%20the%20Bible%20and%20the%20Rise%20~9EE.pdf

Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness

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What is "gospel"?

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Yael Avrahami

Dr. Avrahami is author of the award-winning book Senses of Scripture: Sensory Perception in the Hebrew Bible. Yael was willing to give me a few minutes to discuss her research and the book that has come from it. I've bee…

Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

Robert Rezetko and Ian Young. 2014. Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew: Steps Toward an Integrated Approach. SBLANEM/MACO 9. Atlanta: SBL Press. This book, available as a free PDF, follows up on Linguistic Dating…

Panel Discussion on Paul

Criticism as Apologetics

Critical thinking in biblical exegesis was not born as the result of critical study of the Bible itself. The earliest generations of critical scholars of the Bible such as Erasmus, Scaliger and Grotius, were in the end c…

The Interpretation of History by Paul Tillich

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How to think, not what to think

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