Journal of Language, Culture, & Religion 7.1 Published
We are delighted to share a new issue with the DIU community and our global readership. Issue 7.1 has gathered contributions spanning biblical scholarship, applied linguistics, and the everyday practice of Bible translation, and together they reflect the journal's continuing concern with the ways language shapes faith, culture, global society, and the work of translation in the field.
Several pieces return us to the biblical text itself. Terrance R. Wardlaw Jr. approaches Ezekiel as an oral-derived text and offers a framework for the macroanalysis of prophetic discourse. Stephen J. Schooling traces the Hebrew discourse features that remain visible in the Koine Greek of Revelation, a study that rewards anyone interested in how the texture of one language carries into another.
A second set of contributions turns to the ethics and craft of translation itself. Linus W. Otronyi makes the case for a professional code of ethics in Bible translation, asking what it means to do this work with integrity. Barry Funnell describes a model of group consultation that brings primary-language speakers into quality assurance at every level, a vision of translation as genuinely shared work. And in a practitioner reflection, June F. Dickie draws on long experience to consider the ethical responsibilities of leadership, urging communities to make room for the prophets, poets, and peacemakers so often pushed to the margins.
Anne-Iseut Marie-Eve Reny widens the lens to religion in public life, examining public opinion on proselytization in China and offering a rare empirical window into grassroots religious attitudes in a setting where such data is hard to come by.
The issue closes with four reviews that survey recent scholarship our readers will want to know about: Terrance R. Wardlaw Jr. on Emmylou J. Grosser's Unparalleled Poetry, a cognitive approach to Hebrew free-rhythm verse; J. Albert Bickford on the Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization; Bronwen Cleaver on the biography of Katharine Barnwell, often called the mother of modern Bible translation; and Volodymyr Lavrushko on the Photo Companion to the Bible, assessed for its value to translators and interpreters.
We warmly invite you to read, share, and engage with this issue. Our thanks go to the authors, reviewers, and editorial team whose careful work made it possible, and to a community of readers who continue to believe that scholarship in language, culture, and religion is vital work in the service of understanding toward human flourishing. Enjoy!
Dr. Kendra Duran
Managing Editor, JLCR
VP of Academic Administration
Dallas International University
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