Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation
Articles, links, and files related to translation in general and Bible translation in particular.
- FLFausto LirianoJan 23, 2018
How Ten Prisoners Translated "The Hobbit" to Hebrew, while in Captivity
Extracted text from http://blog.nli.org.il: Close the accessibility toolbarX General visibility_off Disable flashes Fonts Color Contrast brightness_high Bright contrast Links format_underlined Underline links Translating…
- HHHarry HarmJan 22, 2018
The Bible Translator Index
This is an early draft of this document. Please send me feedback and comments so I can improve later versions. Extracted text from The_Bible_Translator_Index.pdf: The Bible Translator This is an early draft. Not all of t…
Andy Warren-RothlinJan 17, 2018Le Sycomore 11.2
TABLE DES MATIÈRES Le mot de la rédaction La traduction des formes féminines de l’hébreu Elizabeth Ann R. WILLETT Comment traduire les termes אלהים ’èlôhîm et יהוה YHWH ? Samuel Tinindjotobe KPAGHERI La traduction des hi…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 17, 2018
David Bentley Hart replies to N. T. Wright's Critical Review
A Reply to N. T. Wright I thought about just adding this as a comment on the post about Wright's review of Hart, but felt that might be privileging Wright's review and burying Hart's response. The debate between them is…
- RBRobert BascomJan 16, 2018
Sinai Palimpsest Project
This is from Norm Mundhenk: I wonder how many of you have heard of the Sinai Palimpsest Project. I knew nothing about it until I opened the latest issue (January 2018) of Smithsonian magazine, which has a fascinating art…
- NENathan EsalaJan 16, 2018
Translating Trump's metaphor
In response to a FB post in which I expressed genuine sadness upon hearing the President of my birth country's “alleged’ comments about some nations being dung receptacles, some of my colleagues, acquaintances, and frien…
- PSPhilip StineJan 16, 2018
Changing Orthographies by Decree
This makes for interesting reading. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/world/asia/kazakhstan-alphabet-nursultan-nazarbayev.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=to…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 16, 2018
N. T. Wright on David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart, by N. T. Wright It turns out Wright is not a huge fan of Hart's work. This is his conclusion: "I was reminded more than once of a particular medieval edition…
- DHDoug HigbyJan 12, 2018
Paratext Training Videos
Our SIL Language Technology Training department has been working on Paratext videos for a long time. Our process is to write learning objectives, then write a script for the video module. When the team has critiqued it,…
- NLNicholas LamméJan 11, 2018
ParaText 8 Training Videos In Spanish
Ok, sooo... if you were to do a search in Google, say for, "videos de capacitación ParaText 8", you wouldn't find much... well, nothing really. Or if you did a search in English for, say, "ParaText 8 training in Spanish"…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 10, 2018
"On the Art of Translation" by Shanta Gokhale
A nice short column on the importance of translation, from an Indian women's magazine. "On the Art of Translation" by Shanta Gokhale (in Verve Magazine, The Spirit of Today's Woman, January 3, 2018) The whole column is a…
- NLNicholas LamméJan 9, 2018
Guía de íconos y banderas para ParaText 8
So, over the Christmas holiday and New Years, I've been creating some resources in Spanish for our translation team, and I wanted to share this guide to icons and flags particular to the Notes function in ParaText 8. I h…
- Andy Warren-RothlinJan 9, 2018
Christentum, das «Schweizer Taschenmesser unter den Religionen»
Als Schweizer liebe ich diesen Titel - ich musste es halt posten! Die Titelgeschichte von dieser GEO-Ausgabe gilt natürlich kaum als „revolutionäre These“ und ist wohl auch nicht besonders hilfreich im öffentlichen Raum.…
- Andy Warren-RothlinJan 9, 2018
Harmonisations in the NIV
I'm posting this because I think it's a useful list of unusual renderings in the NIV, which is influential even in professional translation projects (especially where there are American or British members in the team), h…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 8, 2018
David Bentley Hart, "Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong"
David Bentley Hart, "Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong" Here are a few excerpts from this recent (undated but clearly January 2018) post. As a theologian and translator raising questions about…
- MWMarlon WinedtJan 8, 2018
Algorithms to live by
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- RCRoy CiampaJan 8, 2018
Jesus and the Gospels: Online Museum
The materials found at this "Online Museum" will be of interest to many Bible translators and those promoting Scripture Engagement: Jesus and the Gospels: Online Museum
- RCRoy CiampaJan 7, 2018
"Gained in Translation," by Tim Parks
Tim Parks, "Gained in Translation" in The New York Review of Books (December 9, 2017) I hadn't heard of a "Translation Slam" before, but I love the idea. It sounds like a more interesting (and perhaps more time-consuming…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 7, 2018
Josh Cook, "Words That Speak of What Is Human: On Mireille Gansel’s 'Translation as Transhumance'"
Josh Cook, "Words That Speak of What Is Human: On Mireille Gansel’s 'Translation as Transhumance'" I confess I was not familiar with the term "transhumance" when I read the title of Gansel's book. As Wikipedia tell us (T…
- RCRoy CiampaJan 6, 2018
Intertextuality (and Scripture Engagement) in Art
In thinking about Scripture Engagement and intertextuality I find what I consider an interesting example in a large World War I memorial statue that was executed by my grandfather, Emilius Ciampa. This WWI memorial statu…