Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation
Articles, links, and files related to translation in general and Bible translation in particular.
- JLJochanan LoewensteinSep 20, 2022
Live Biblical Hebrew (and other courses) from Israel
At Jerusalem Seminary’s (JS) School of Hebrew (Hebrew for the Nations) we have taught Biblical Hebrew to two cohorts of Bible Translators and consultants in 2020 and 2021, with each cohort being taught by two Israeli Heb…
Andy Warren-RothlinSep 16, 2022The Bible Translator 73.2 (Aug 2022)
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tbtd/73/2 Editorial This issue of The Bible Translator offers two sets of papers. The first consists of a number of SBL papers, which were delivered at sessions of the Nida Institute at t…
- Andy Warren-RothlinSep 16, 2022
The Bible Translator 73.1 (April 2022)
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tbtd/73/1 Editorial As the new editorial team, we would like to thank Stephen Pattemore for his kind words of welcome in the last issue and express our own pleasure at having been invited…
- WRWaseem RazaSep 16, 2022
Call for Applications to New Online Course: “Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Palaeography, Edition, Cataloguing” [Deadline: 10 October 2022]
http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/news/call-for-applications-to-new-online-course-rhebrew-manuscripts-in-the-digital-age-palaeography-edition-cataloguingr-65.htm?fbclid=IwAR2R71VGRvB2Jw2w0q00K4EeO9GE4Pzl69rvHp9LTj67KbrToiD…
- PKPhil KingSep 16, 2022
"The syntax of discourse structure" (John Roberts)
Some languages typically have the verb before the object in a clause (eg. 'I kicked the ball', Subject-Verb-Object), others typically have the object before the verb (eg. 'I the ball kicked', Subject-Object-Verb). In thi…
- ERElizabeth RobarSep 7, 2022
Job opening: Visual Exegete
Title: Visual Exegete Reports to: Layer by Layer Project Manager Cambridge Digital Bible Research is a non-profit organisation that brings scholarly excellence to resources for Bible translation. In bridging the gap betw…
- PKPhil KingSep 7, 2022
Online Translation Training Resources
Over the past few weeks, I've been exploring training resources for Bible translation that are available online. Here's a summary of resources that I've found so far - please do add other ideas of useful sites into the c…
- WRWaseem RazaSep 7, 2022
Bible and Quran Reading Together
Center for Muslim and Christian Studies at Oxford is offering a course on reading Bible and Quran together. I find this course very interesting and useful for Bible translators. These are two books from Abrahamic traditi…
- BMBrian MigliazzaSep 5, 2022
Translation News SEPTEMBER 2022
https://mailchi.mp/f2b81d5577f2/sep-2022-translation-news?e=db52b9c362 View this email in your browser International Translation Services (ITS) works in collaboration with colleagues in SIL and other agencies to creative…
- KTKris TolerSep 2, 2022
Podcast interview about Oral Translation
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1592380/11246303
- EVEshinee VeithSep 2, 2022
Ernst Wendland podcast episode
When Ernst Wendland attended the Concordia Mission Institute in July 2022 as a plenary speaker, the hosts of the Essentially Translatable podcast took the opportunity to interview him. In this episode, Wendland shares re…
- ASAaron ShryockAug 23, 2022
Bible Translation and the Great Commission?
I used to cite the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) as the Scriptural basis for the ministry of Bible translation. I was not alone. Such leaders as William Cameron Townsend and Eugene Nida brought together the task of tr…
- RBRobert BascomAug 10, 2022
Are emotions socially constructed?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/how-universal-are-our-emotions
- PKPhil KingAug 4, 2022
1 week left: Quality in Translation Symposium
Do you have thoughts about quality in Bible translation? Maybe a challenge you've wrestled with in a project you work with, or a new idea, or a concern? There's still a week left to submit a contribution to the conversat…
- BMBrian MigliazzaAug 4, 2022
Translation News Aug 2022
https://mailchi.mp/ac5de5778725/august-2022-translation-news?e=db52b9c362 View this email in your browser International Translation Services (ITS) works in collaboration with colleagues in SIL and other agencies to creat…
- WRWaseem RazaJul 28, 2022
75th Anniversary of DSS
Biblical Archeology Society is going to arrange this talk on the 75th anniversary of Dead Sea Scrolls. Something you would not like to miss. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/travel-study/bas-scholars-series-with-jodi-…
- EWernst wendlandJul 26, 2022
Rethinking Orality
Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages' Edited by: Andrea Ercolani and Laura Lulli Rethinking Orality II: The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication System in the Case…
- PKPhil KingJul 25, 2022
BT Training and Development CoP with Bryan Harmelink
Hi folks, The next Bible Translation Training and Development Community of Practice will be on 18th August, and will provide a chance to hear from Bryan Harmelink about the Language & Translation in the Mission of God cu…
- WRWaseem RazaJul 9, 2022
Oral Bible Translation with Non Native Speakers
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- MSMap SupportJul 7, 2022
Symposium on Translation Quality
The Pike Center for Integrative Scholarship, in collaboration with with SIL International Translation Services, the Nida Institute, Biblica, The Seed Company, and Dallas International University, has just announced that…