Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation
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- SSSeppo SipiläDec 18, 2015
User-Centered Translation
This recent (2014) textbook on users, usability, and user experience on translation will - I believe - help us to better identify our target audiences and give us tools how to acieve our goals with our particular audienc…
- DRDaniel RodriguezNov 27, 2015
Michel Serres on the Humanities
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- DRDaniel RodriguezNov 17, 2015
René Girard 1923-2015
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- RBRobert BascomNov 16, 2015
Are there moral/spiritual universals in biblical cultures?
Recently, in a training workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico I was trying to make the point that we sometimes (mistakenly) think not only of the biblical text, but of the biblical cultures which produced them, as sacred. This…
- AKAnne KompaoreNov 2, 2015
Biblical Languages and Bible Translation practice
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- FLFausto LirianoSep 9, 2015
Traducción de Poesía Bíblica En El Siglo de Oro Español
Últimamente he estado estudiando la estructura de la poesía hebrea, hasta ahora (repito: hasta ahora) he encontrado que la conversación no ha avanzado mucho en los últimos 20 años. Pero una de las cosas que llamó profund…
- RBRobert BascomJul 4, 2015
Hyperbole in the Sermon on the Mount
First, several unrelated comments are in order: 1\. When I accuse my wife of exaggerating, she often replies: "I was just trying to get across the emotional truth." Now she can defend herself with this academic article:…
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"Harmonic resonances" in language and translation
Comments are welcome. My comments about taking statistics come mainly from Patricia Kuhl: https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/562552-the-linguistic-genius-of-babies This is an amusing and informative video on harmonic resona…
- RBRobert BascomJun 14, 2015
What is context?
This academia.edu article is (in my opinion) needlessly complicated (just look at the graphics), yet its conclusions (quoted below) are still helpful: Conclusion: What is context? Apparently, the conception of context ou…
- YWYancy W. Smith, PhDMay 19, 2015
Does the Meaning of the Bible Grow? Translation and all that Jazz
Extracted text from Gadamer_on_the_Event_of_Art_RP.pdf: Dr. Cynthia R. Nielsen March 2015 Gadamer on the Event of Art, the Other, and a Gesture Toward a Gadamerian Approach to AvantGarde Jazz Abstract( Several prominent…
- RBRobert BascomMay 5, 2015
The Interface between Scientific and Technical Translation Studies and Cognitive Linguistics
Scientific and Technical Translation (STT) is a highly complex and knowledge-intensive field of translation and cognitive linguistics is a usage-based linguistic framework which provides powerful theoretical tools for mo…
- DRDaniel RodriguezMar 11, 2015
Benjamin Blower
(David) Benjamin Blower is a British musician who makes what he calls "apocalyptic cowboy music". He's both a folk singer and a rapper. His songs present biblical and modern images side-by-side, interpreting the modern w…
- DKDaniel KerberMar 6, 2015
The canon in the Vulgate
Abstract This paper focuses on the historical development of the Latin translations of the Bible and the debates on the canon and its inherent terminology that came up during this period of almost fifteen centuries. It b…
- AKAnne KompaoreFeb 3, 2015
UBS Translation principles
Extracted text from Translation_Principles_of_UBS.docx: 1 1.1 TRANSLATION PRINCIPLES OF UBS1 Definititon of functional equivalence translations Functional equivalence translations (called sometimes functional corresponde…
- RBRobert BascomDec 17, 2014
Translation acceleration: a reflection
When I was a child, I was, for a time and at times, a finicky eater. My parents would cajole, nag, and scold me to get me to finish everything they had put on my plate. At some point even the starving children in Africa…
- RBRobert BascomDec 16, 2014
Mat 21:7 - a translation note from Norm Mundhenk
Bob, No doubt you are aware of the exegetical problem in Matthew 21.7, where there is either confusion or disagreement about what the last word (αὐτῶν) refers to. I would suspect that in the flow of Greek it would be sur…
- MDMarijke de LangDec 16, 2014
"Anna Karenina - the devil in the details"
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- MDMarijke de LangNov 30, 2014
Retranslation: Translation, Literature and Reinterpretation by Sharon Deane-Cox
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- DRDaniel RodriguezNov 24, 2014
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…
- DRDaniel RodriguezNov 18, 2014
BT2015!
Hello, You are receiving this email because you have attended the Bible Translation Conference in Dallas, Texas, in the past, you have expressed interest in hearing about future conferences, or attendance at the conferen…