Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation
Articles, links, and files related to translation in general and Bible translation in particular.
- RBRobert BascomMar 19, 2015
Batman
Marijke de Lang recently raised the issue with me of how the blind negotiate meaning, given that meaning negotiation has so much to do with images in our brains (and what we do with them). It got me thinking, and here ar…
- ETElsa TamezMar 18, 2015
UBS Brief on Sign Language in French
Extracted text from UBS_Briefing_9_-_Sign_Languages_and_the_BibleFrFinal.pdf: FICHE DINFORMATION 9 Les langues des signes et la Bible La traduction de la Bible dans les langues des signes constitue un dfi majeur pour lAB…
- ETElsa TamezMar 18, 2015
UBS Brief on Sign Language and Deaf Comunity
UBS start to be more interested in Sign Language Bible Tranaslation. This Brief is also in French and Spanish. It was elaborated by Chris Dale. Extracted text from UBS_Briefing_9_-_Sign_Languages_and_the_BibleEngFinal.pd…
- RBRobert BascomMar 18, 2015
Steven Pinker on Good Writing
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- FLFausto LirianoMar 16, 2015
Sefaria: A living library of Jewish texts.
"Sefaria" is a free collection of Jewish texts, that goes from the Hebrew Bible to the Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar and different rabbinic commentaries in Hebrew and English. People can contribute with articles or translating.…
- DRDaniel RodriguezMar 13, 2015
Time and Tense
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- YWYancy W. Smith, PhDMar 13, 2015
UNCLEAN: Richard Beck's Psychology of Disgust and Bible Translation
I am wondering are there are any translators or consultants that have begun to use recent research on disgust and purity mentalities as a key to understand Biblical notions of purity and impurity? Let's talk
- NENathan EsalaMar 12, 2015
Resisting written documents as the optimal material means of ensuring language circulation?
Charles Briggs (2013:292-293) consciously alludes to Walter Benjamin's 1968 piece "The Storyteller." Briggs writes, "Benjamin warns about what happens to narrative transmission when it is severed from the material practi…
- NENathan EsalaMar 12, 2015
Circulation, Ethnopoetics, and Bible translation
Charles Briggs (2013) suggests that a number of anthropologists and social scientists find the notions of circulation and mobility theoretically productive. In his article he applies these notions to "ethnopoetics", whic…
- NENathan EsalaMar 12, 2015
Indexical histories and circulating cultural forms
Bible translators are into circulating cultural forms, but often don't think about the ways those forms are always linked indexically to location, technologies and the like. Charles Briggs explains it this way. "Geoffrey…
- YWYancy W. Smith, PhDMar 12, 2015
Origins of Nicaraguan Sign Language
Post It Up NPR Radio Lab Segment In the late 1970s, a new language was born. And Ann Senghas, Associate Professor of Psychology at Barnard, has spent the last 30 years helping to decode it. In 1978, 50 deaf children ente…
- 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…
- YDYoussouf DembeleMar 10, 2015
THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE PERSONALITY IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE
Extracted text from Corporate_Personality.pdf: THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE PERSONALITY IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE By Dr Youssouf Dembele Introduction Translation is…
- KLKris LyleMar 10, 2015
Linguistics Greek Verb Conference for NT Exegetes
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- KLKris LyleMar 6, 2015
Is a new linguistics conference on the NT Greek verbal system brewing?
My friend Chris just posted some exciting new information you may be interested in if you're passionate about NT Greek or Linguistics and verbal systems.
- JHJim HarriesMar 6, 2015
Vulnerable Mission (missionaries should use indigenous languages in ministry) conferences in UK and Germany, April and May 2015.
Realising how much of 'meaning' arises from the context, and ways in which use of European languages outside of the West distort power relationships, the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission advocates use of local languages a…
- YDYoussouf DembeleMar 6, 2015
Ancient Israel: The Divided Kingdom
Extracted text from The_Divided_Kingdom.doc: Youssouf Dembele Ancient Israel: The Divided Kingdom The birth process of Israel as Gods people began with the call of Abram (Gen 12:1-3), the deliverance from the bondage of…
- YDYoussouf DembeleMar 6, 2015
THE RELEVANCE OF WITTGENSTEIN’S PRIVATE LANGUAGE ARGUMENT FOR SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES: A CASE STUDY OF THE INNER WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Extracted text from PrivLang.doc: THE RELEVANCE OF WITTGENSTEINS PRIVATE LANGUAGE ARGUMENT FOR SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES: A CASE STUDY OF THE INNER WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INTRODUCTION The concept of language is one of th…
- LDLénart de RegtMar 6, 2015
'Flashbacks and Other Forms of Non-Chronological Arrangement in Hebrew Narrative'
Extracted text from RigaConference_Article_LJ_de_Regt.pdf: 131 Lnart J. de Regt FLASHBACKS AND OTHER FORMS OF NON-CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT IN HEBREW NARRATIVE Introduction In Philip Kaufmans film adaptation of 1988 of M…
- YDYoussouf DembeleMar 6, 2015
Ma confession de foi_Youssouf Dembele
Extracted text from Confession_de_foi_Youssouf_Demb_l_.pdf: CONFESSION DE FOI YOUSSOUF DEMBELE Cest sur la base de la Parole infaillible et inerrante de Dieu que je confesse de ma bouche ce que je crois en mon cur.1 Je c…