Vern Poythress on "Fullness Versus Reductionistic Semantics"

Translating Truth: The Case for Essentially Literal Bible Translation is a collection of papers originally presented to the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004. Each of the five authors was part of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version (ESV). This post is part 4 of a series, evaluating Vern Poythress’ paper, “Truth and Fullness of Meaning: Fullness Versus Reductionistic Semantics in Biblical Interpretation.”

Vern Poythress’ paper presents a rather jarring shift from the previous papers in this volume. First, it is far more technical, and displays a level of engagement with linguistic theory that was largely ignored, even intentionally, in previous papers. Second, he never makes use of the label “essentially literal,” making his contribution to the case for this translation philosophy less explicit. Third, I found myself in agreement with most of his arguments, although below I will point out some weaknesses.

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