REVIEW (Extended): Noss, Philip A., and Charles S. Houser, eds. 2020. A Guide to Bible Translation: People, Languages, and Topics. 2nd ed.

Introduction

A Guide to Bible Translation: People, Languages, and Topics is a general reference resource produced mainly through the joint efforts of the United Bible Societies (UBS) and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), with the participation of many people associated with the Nida Institute.

The general editors of the Guide, Philip A. Noss and Charles S. Houser, are no strangers to Bible translation. Noss, who holds a Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, served as a Bible translator and literature coordinator for 11 years in Cameroon. During his twenty-year tenure with UBS, Noss served as a Bible Translation Consultant, a regional translation coordinator (Africa), and as global translation coordinator. Houser, his co-editor, served for 36 years (1978–2014) as Editorial and Publications Manager with the American Bible Society. ...

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