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- EJEditor JOTAug 8, 2025
Review of: The Word as word: A Canonical-Hermeneutical Approach to Translation by Michael Straus (Wendland 2025)
SIL’s Journal of Translation is proud to announce its fourth article of 2025, a book review: Review of: The Word as word: A Canonical-Hermeneutical Approach to Translation by Michael Straus Wendland, Ernst R. 2025. “Revi…
- EJEditor JOTJun 17, 2025
Portrait of a Translator: Francis Seely and the 1971 Revision of the Thai Bible (Liao 2025)
SIL’s Journal of Translation is proud to announce the publication of the third article of 2025: Portrait of a Translator: Francis Seely and the 1971 Revision of the Thai Bible Liao, Doug. 2025. “Portrait of a Translator:…
Drew MaustNov 22, 2024NT Pod 104: The Synoptic Translation Problem
NT Pod 104, "The Synoptic Translation Problem," investigates a problem in English translations of the Gospels. The translations frequently mangle the agreements and disagreements between the Synoptic Gospels, and between…
- Drew MaustOct 4, 2024
Tom, Dick and Harry as Well as Fido and Puss in Boots are Translators: The Implications of Biosemiotics for Translation Studies
Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University (Online) Translation Seminar by Prof. Kobus Marais (17 Oct 2024） https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/event/the-implications-of-biosemiotics-for-translation-studies/ Date: 17/10/20…
- JFJoshua FrostAug 20, 2024
When is God "Father" vs. "Dad?"
I am part of the "Spoken English Bible" team, which is tasked with producing a colloquial English OBT with a suite of oral translation tools. When is God "Father," and when is He, "Dad?" This was the question we recently…
- Drew MaustApr 23, 2024
Gender in Bible Translation: A Crucial Issue Still Mired in Misunderstanding (Brunn 2024)
Brunn, David. 2024. “Gender in Bible Translation: A Crucial Issue Still Mired in Misunderstanding.” Themelios 49 (1): 12–31. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/gender-in-bible-translation-a-crucial-issu…
- SHSameh HannaMar 4, 2024
[Re]Gained in Translation II Bibles, Histories, and Struggles for Identity (new publication)
This new publication is described by its publisher as follows: Times are changing, and with them, the norms and notions of correctness. Despite a wide-spread belief that the Bible, as a “sacred original,” only allows on…
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Journal of Translation 19.1 (2023) now available
The latest issue of SIL’s Journal of Translation is now available. Visit the links below to download PDFs of all articles free of charge. Journal of Translation 19.1 (2023) Downie, Jonathan. “Building Partnership Between…
- Drew MaustOct 26, 2020
Virtual Conference: Recent Archaeological & Historical Studies of Ancient Israel
From October 25 to 28, New York University is sponsoring a 4-day virtual conference, "The Land That I Will Show You" Recent Archaeological & Historical Studies of Ancient Israel. This event is free to join and open to th…
- Drew MaustOct 7, 2020
Webinar on Paratextuality and the Arabic Bible with Sameh Hanna
This webinar is part of the BT List Live webinar series. How does Scripture presentation impact reception? What can we learn about the social world of the translator and the end user through paratext? How does socio-tran…
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Figurative Language, Genre and Register
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- RBRobert BascomJul 3, 2019
We are all born citizens of the world
Patricia Kuhl (et. al.) makes the point that infants and toddlers are able without problem to distinguish virtually all the possible sounds in all of the languages of the world (see her TED talk) from birth, but graduall…
- RBRobert BascomJun 5, 2019
How secret languages thrive behind bars
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- DCDavid ClarkApr 24, 2019
Macaronic Scripture Translation?
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- RBRobert BascomMar 21, 2019
Anyone Speak K’iche’ or Mam?
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- RBRobert BascomFeb 27, 2019
"Of Islands and Highlands," by David Clark
A retired Bible translation consultant re-lives his exotic and unpredictable journeys during his six years of service in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. David Clark worked for the United Bible Societies and con…
- RBRobert BascomFeb 8, 2019
The Punchline
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- RBRobert BascomFeb 8, 2019
Creative Differences
I am not so much thinking about political differences here, but rather cultural ones (though the overlap is huge). The kind of cultural differences with which those of us in BT are all too familiar. Extracted text from h…
- RBRobert BascomDec 31, 2018
Yum and Yuck: The Psychology Of What We Eat...
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- RBRobert BascomDec 17, 2018
Death to Potatoes
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