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- DGDavid GrayOct 2, 2026
Which Manuscript Should we Translate? - Textual Criticism and Bible Translation Today
Manuscript When translating the New Testament from Greek into the various languages around the world that still need it, translators have to make a decision. Which manuscript are they going to work from? Often, the polic…
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Andy Warren-RothlinAug 19, 2026Bible Translation: Translating Ambiguity, Metaphors and Word Play
Date: Monday 23 November 2026 Time: 9.00-11.30 AM Venue: Sheraton Room: Governor’s Square 12 Speaker 1: Knut Heim (Denver Seminary)Title: “Bible Translation Theory and Practice: Identifying and Rendering Ambiguity” Abstr…
- JGJean GotopoDec 12, 2025
When Blood Cries Out: The Metonymic Power of Genesis 4:10
The confrontation between God and Cain in Genesis 4:10 contains one of Scripture's most haunting images: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground." On the surface, this a…
Drew MaustMay 29, 2025Introduction to Oral Poetry (open access)
Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0428 Ruth Finnegan, Oral Poetry. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2025, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0428. This is a revised and enla…
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What is Hebrew poetry and how do we read it? (Tyndale Podcast)
In this episode of the Tyndale House Cambridge podcast, Tony Watkins is joined by three long-term readers who are all working on PhDs at Cambridge University. Ellie Wiener is currently studying the book of Job, Megan Als…
- 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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Should Bible translators be named?
Why translators should be named on book covers Jennifer Croft https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/10/why-translators-should-be-named-on-book-covers The underlying assumption on the part of many publishers seems to…
- Drew MaustAug 19, 2021
Rewriting the Bible: Culture, Power, and the Theology of Bible Translation
Bryan D. Bibb, “Rewriting the Bible: Culture, Power, and the Theology of Bible Translation,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 48.2 (2021): 149–62. “With regard to the ideology of Bible translation in this paper, I will…
- 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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The future of deliberate metaphor theory
Extracted text from https://www.academia.edu/32281422/Does_deliberate_metaphor_theory_have_a_future?email_work_card=view-paper: TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'docManager.firstVisiblePage.pageNum') https://…
- RBRobert BascomSep 24, 2019
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor i…
- RBRobert BascomFeb 8, 2019
Translating the Bible Against NE Background
This time a contribution from Esteban Voth, on the same title mentioned in a recent post from Phil Stine. Extracted text from http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/02/Translating-the-Bible-Against-NE-Background: BECOME A MEM…
- RBRobert BascomJan 27, 2019
Sacred Writings
In The New Yorker of January 28, 2019, Adam Gopnik has a brilliant and fascinating article about sacred writings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His starting point is Robert Alter's recently released translation of t…
- DFDavid FrankJan 3, 2019
Journal of Translation 14:1
Journal of Translation 14:1 (2018) Peter Schmidt Toward a Best Practice in Representing the Authors' Explanatory Notes in Old Testament Translation 1-28 Gerhard Tauberschmidt Polysemy and Homonymy in Biblical Hebrew 29-4…
- RBRobert BascomSep 19, 2018
JCBT, Tov, and HOTTP
Below is what I wrote for my notes as the designated responder to Professor Tov at the UBS TTW in Merida in 1997. I was responding to his perspective (which he still holds to this day) that Hebrew Bible text criticism is…
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Literary translation
Extracted text from http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2015/01/lexicon_valley_masha_gessen_on_the_many_translations_of_leo_tolstoy_s_anna.html: LEXICON VALLEY A SHOW ABOUT THE MYSTERIES OF ENGLISH. JAN…
- MDMarijke de LangNov 26, 2016
Theologygrams
A funny booklet in which exegetical issues are explained in diagrams - nice for PPT presentations. Wild's comment: "If you've never seen \\"The Shawshank Redemption\\" I can only apologize.
- RBRobert BascomOct 21, 2016
George Washington and the Cherry Tree
The PowerPoint below will not make much sense unless you know the legend of George Washington and the Cherry Tree. I include a link to the legend/myth here: I use the Cherry Tree legend to point to how some possible leve…
- RBRobert BascomSep 12, 2016
Linguistic attitudes
As I prepare for a training of Bible Society staff in an English setting on the topic of English versions of the Bible, I find myself circling back to the theme of how our identities are bound together with our language…
- DHDale HoskinsAug 27, 2016
The Illuminated Bible: Translating Intertextuality in Scripture
UPDATE: October 5, 2016 I am grateful to each of you who participated in my research. I'll post my thesis later this year after my defense and I've finalized the text. Meanwhile, many of you may still wish to 'weigh in'…
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