Series
Curated, ordered collections of posts — a guided path through a topic.
- NPNick Peterson
Discussions on AI for Consultants
SIL and UBS have seen the need for translation consultants to be aware of how to use AI in their work, how to encourage the translation teams that they are working with to use AI, and to understand the implications of using AI in Bible translation. As we move forward in these discussions, we would like to see consultants and translation teams confident that they know what resources can help them and how to use them.
2 posts
- JGJean Gotopo
Rethorical Issues in the Bible
This series will cover articles and resources for the study of aspects related to rhetorical figures in the Bible.
2 posts
Drew MaustNotes on Translation (français)
3 posts
- EJEditor JOT
Journal of Translation
Published by SIL International, the Journal of Translation is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal of translation theory and practice with a special interest in sacred text translation and local languages and cultures. For more information, visit https://siljot.org. PDFs of all articles are available free of charge.
16 posts
- ACAndrew Case
Curso gratis sobre la crítica textual del Antiguo Testamento
Esta serie presentará con mucho detalle los distintos manuscritos y publicaciones del Antiguo Testamento. También establecerá una base para poder entender la ciencia de comparar y evaluar los diferentes manuscritos como testigos, entender por qué hay ciertas diferencias entre las versiones en español, y poder hacer decisiones para el trabajo de traducción bíblica.
12 posts
- PKPhil King
Hermeneutics, Theology and Bible Translation
A series of resources to explore the connections between hermeneutics and theology and the practice of Bible Translation.
3 posts
Andy Warren-RothlinThe Bible Translator
The Bible Translator is the leading academic journal dedicated to the theory and practice of Bible translation. It has been published continuously since 1950, and exists firstly to serve those directly involved in Bible translation, aiming to encourage sharing of the results of their research and records of their practice. It exists also to provide a forum for a wider community of scholars and students interested in a range of disciplines which influence the translation of the Bible, and encourages engagement between scholars and translators. UBS: https://translation.bible/publications/the-bible-translator/ Sage: https://journals.sagepub.com/description/TBT
19 posts
- NMNick Messmer
Lexical Semantics
This podcast series explores principles, methods, and resources for doing lexical semantics with biblical Greek and Hebrew. We give an introduction to lexical semantics as a discipline, a look into Greek and Hebrew lexicography, and several specific examples of word studies and lexical semantic analyses.
9 posts
- NMNick Messmer
Biblical Language Pedagogy
This podcast series explores principles, methods, and resources for teaching and learning the biblical languages. We hear from experts in Second Language Acquisition generally as well as the biblical languages specifically.
2 posts
- NMNick Messmer
The Verbal Systems of the Biblical Languages
This podcast series explores the verbal systems of Biblical Hebrew and Greek. We give an introduction to the categories of tense, aspect, and modality as well as discuss the current debates going on within Biblical Hebrew and Greek studies on the verbal systems. We hear from some of the top scholars in the field on their own analyses and the state of the field.
4 posts
- Drew Maust
BT List Live Webinars
8 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
The Lord's Prayer
The first two posts and comment threads below needed to be merged somehow, so this is an attempt to do that. If further posts and/or threads are added, so be it. There is plenty still to talk about here.
2 posts
- SPStephen Pattemore
Cultural Hermeneutics Readings
NSBT 2017
5 posts
- MDMarijke de Lang
Tomasello versus De Waal
Are fairness and morality only human?
7 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Work and motivation
10 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Workshops-Spanish
Dropbox folders containing materials for various training workshops in Spanish.
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Workshops-English
Dropbox folders containing materials for various training workshops in English.
2 posts
- SPStephen Pattemore
Bangkok TO Training 2016
Some Reading
20 posts
- DRDavid Rowbory
BT 2015 Conference Papers & Resources
Several MAP members have contributed their papers presented at the BT2015 conference in Dallas. This series is an attempt to gather them together for ease of reference.
8 posts
- DHDoug Higby
Best Practices for Paratext 8
The majority case for effective use of the tool
2 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Academia.edu
This series is where various Academia.edu materials will be brought together.
44 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Communication is interaction
We usually think of communication as fundamentally the exchange of information and ideas. But maybe it is different than that...
8 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Lengua(s) de señas
5 posts
- MWMarlon Winedt
POWER OF ORALITY
10 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Our Animal Nature
Neuroscience is discovering that much of what we have thought of as uniquely human reasoning (including moral reasoning) we at least partly share with other mammals. Part of the relevance of this for negotiating meaning is that much of our brain activity is outside of our conscious awareness and inaccessible to us. In part this is because it originates from the bottom up, from sub-cortical regions of our brains, and only later is rationalized.
13 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Negotiating Meaning-part 3: Cultural/Cognitive Thought Styles
Mary Douglas believes there is a grid/group structure which describes the way people think in various contexts. She believes this results in four major thought styles which tend to guide our thinking along the twin axes of social solidarity and personal freedom: individualist, hierachist, communitarian, and isolate. Interestingly, other scholars (Alan Fiske, Richard, Shweder, and Jonathan Haidt) have seen similar patterns, though they usually give them somewhat different names. This series overlaps with the series parts 1 and 2.
22 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Skopos Theory
The concepts of the purpose of given translations as well as that of the translation brief have been made popular in translation studies by Christiane Nord. Here are some posts on the topic.
7 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Our Unconscious Selves
Much of what our brains do goes on outside of our conscious awareness. Sub-cortical areas of the brain are involved, and at times we relegate what we do to automatic thinking, or procedural memory. This makes us more efficient, but less self-aware.
12 posts
- BRBrian Renes
Editing project text in Paratext
material for proper editing in Paratext
1 post
- SPStephen Pattemore
Relevance Theory - Key Terms and Concepts
This is still a series under construction
10 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Guidelines for Bible Translators
These are generally UBS documents, but many have wider application within the field of Bible translation. Some of these post are taken from a (somewhat dated) manual for Translation Officers (consultants). Most record still-important aspects of the work of TO/TCs.
22 posts
- MCMiguel Chuga
NIDA 082014 Mexico y Guatemala
Durante la semana del 28-07-2014 al 01-08-2014 en la ciudad de México se llevo a cabo el taller “Nuevos enfoques en el trabajo de la traducción de la Biblia”
19 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Bible Illustrations
These are catalogs from which those producing biblical materials can choose what they want to use and then ask for permission to use the actual image files.
3 posts
- DKDaniel Kerber
Canon history
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Temas de traducción bíblica (videos)
Estos videos tratan de temas relacionadas al trabajo de traducción de la Biblia. Fueron tomados de cursillos dados por diferentes consultores de las Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas.
4 posts
- MHMichael Hemenway
Bible, Translation and Media
11 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
La lingüística
Estas contribuciones tocan el tema de la lingüística en algunos de sus varios aspectos.
13 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Chris Heard
These helpful videos deserve a series of their own. Thanks, Daniel!
5 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
La semiótica y la intersemiótica
Estas contribuciones tienen como su meta hacernos reflexionar sobre cómo podemos comunicar el mundo bíblico a nuestro mundo moderno en formas no tradicionales.
9 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Embodied mind/perception
Embodied cognition can be already be seen clearly in the area of perception. Because of the way our bodies experience the world and our adaptation to that experience, we come to see (and hear a feel and taste and smell) things in certain ways, even when those ways sometimes fool us (that is, can be shown to not be giving us a true picture of the world).
17 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Paratext
These posts have to do with PT in one way or the other. Future posts relevant to PT will be gathered here as well.
25 posts
- DRDaniel Rodriguez
BH 178 Vocabulary
Here's some Biblical Hebrew vocabulary videos I made for my students in BH 178 at Stellenbosch. These go along with Prof. Van der Merwe's introductory text here on MAP (https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/531249-biblical-hebrew-for-translators-an-introduction).
61 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
La poesía bíblica
La poesía bíblica tiene formas ajenas a las que normalmente conocemos. Es importante entender esta formas para traducir los textos poéticos de la Biblia.
3 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Calendars
Posts about calendars.
5 posts
- SPStephen Pattemore
A Gentle Introduction to Relevance Theory
This series introduces some of the ideas and concepts behind Relevance Theory.
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
FONÉTICA Y FONOLOGÍA
La fonética es una descripción de todos los sonidos de un idioma. La fonología es la descripción de la estructura de esos sonidos que se organizan para comunicarse entre nativos hablantes de un idioma.
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Cognitive linguistics and translation
18 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Negotiating Meaning-part 1: The Brain
Translators negotiate meaning when they attempt to mediate an original communication into a new context. But meaning has already been negotiated whenever the original communication took place. Translators need to understand this process at various levels, from the individual and cognitive to the social and cultural. The first PP presentation and the article it is built on represent an overview of all three series under the "negotiating meaning" heading.
17 posts
- MHMichael Hemenway
Translation Journal - Inaugural Edition
The freely available inaugural edition of Translation: a transdisciplinary journal.
3 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Identidad en la Biblia
2 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Bibliography
Resources for the topic "negotiating meaning" and beyond.
5 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Endangered Languages and Cultures
This series will attempt to document the serious issues of language and culture death.
11 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Collaboration
Post about the idea that what is good for others is good for each of us individually.
8 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
The Otherness of the Text
The papers in this series were written in the early 1990's, but still have some good examples of why it is necessary to negotiate the meaning of texts in translation. The video speaks as if there is only one paper, but it equally applies to both. The graphics mostly speak for themselves.
11 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
El análisis del discurso
Hay varias ramas de este campo (técnica, ideológica, cultural, cognitiva), y estas contribuciones tratarán de cubrir la mayoría de ellas si no al principio, eventualmente.
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Sign Language(s) and Translation
Please feel free to post other items to this series on Sign Language(s)
12 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Mapas bíblicos e ilustraciones bíblicas
El usuario tiene derecho de examinar estos recursos para elegir los mapas preferidos o las ilustraciones preferidas para un producto, pero hay que obtener permiso para usar las imágenes originales en una publicación.
4 posts
- MHMichael Hemenway
Canvas Basics
A collection of tutorials on the basic functionality of Canvas LMS.
2 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
La semántica
Estas contribuciones son sobre la semántica, no tanto de la perspectiva lógica o filosófica, sino del punto de vista de lenguaje y cognición.
7 posts
- DRDaniel Rodriguez
BH 178 Questions
This series discusses the review questions at the end of each section in Prof. Christo van der Merwe's BH 178 Workbook (https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/531249-biblical-hebrew-for-translators-an-introduction). Please respond with a comment and links for more resources.
2 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Special Scripture Products
These are generally UBS documents, but many have wider application within the field of Bible translation. Some of these post are taken from a (somewhat dated) manual for Translation Officers (consultants). Most record still-important aspects of the work of TO/TCs.
11 posts
- RLRandall Lemley
Intro to Translation of Key Biblical Terms
4 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Media and Communication
These posts should have implications for Bible translation. What are some of them?
13 posts
- BRBrian Renes
Translation Process
topics to help new translators understand the 4 stages, 4 tasks, and 2 training elements involved in the translation process
18 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Text, canon, and versions of the Bible
These posts relate to the history of the textual transmission of the biblical text.
16 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Proverbios
Contribuciones sobre los Proverbios en la Biblia
5 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Recursos en Español
Estos recursos en Castellano son para traductores y consultores de traducción de la Bíblia.
14 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
The Connected Mind
The negotiation of meaning assumes that humans are connected to each other and within themselves in important and all-encompassing ways. Here are some posts which illustrate various aspects of this inter-connectivity, especially evident in the age of the Internet. Also see Michael Hemenway's excellent series on the Internet and cognition: https://map.bloomfire.com/series/2472-internet-and-cognition
26 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Theo van der Louw
Contribuciones de Theo en Castellano
6 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Mirror Neurons and a Theory of Mind
These post all have to do with mirror neurons and theory of mind. Mirror Neurons are brain cells which fire automatically (yet seemingly empathically) when we watch others act or be acted upon. Some neuroscientists think they are the basis of human language and communication. Theory of mind has a very specific and technical use in neuroscience. It means that at some point (verbally around 4 years old) children realize that what someone else is thinking may not be the same as what they are thinking. This ability to simulate what others are thinking is critical to negotiating meaning.
9 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Texto, canon, y versiones de la Biblia
Estas entradas cubren asuntos de la crítica textual de la Biblia: las historia de las versiones y sus textos en las vidas de las comunidades de fe.
8 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Technology
General posts about technology.
8 posts
- Andy Warren-Rothlin
Le Sycomore
Le Sycomore est une revue scientifique traitant de plusieurs domaines d’enquête qui contribuent à la pratique de la traduction de la Bible, par exemple, la linguistique, l’anthropologie, l’exégèse, la théologie, la philologie, la théorie de la traduction, l’utilisation des Saintes Ecritures. Cette revue est publiée au nom de l’Alliance biblique universelle et en partenariat avec SIL. Son comité éditorial comprend des spécialistes internationaux en traduction de la Bible. Les contributions proviennent pour la plupart de traducteurs de la Bible et de conseillers en traduction de la Bible, mais aussi de pratiquants et de théoriciens dans tout domaine apparenté. Un langage non technique est visé pour atteindre un public large parmi les traducteurs de la Bible, les institutions académiques et les Églises, et pour permettre à toutes les parties prenantes d’entrer en dialogue.
20 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Poetry
These posts on poetry seemed to me to be a natural series. I hope bringing them together into one is helpful to some people. Again thanks to Daniel Rodriguez for most of the posts.
14 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
What do babies know (and when do they know it?)
Humans do not have the largest of brains (elephants have bigger brains), nor the largest in relation to their bodies (mice win out there). But humans are born with their brains less developed than any other animal. This means that most of our brain development happens within the context of socialization. This may explain much of the difference between us and the other animals (e.g. language). Episode #4 of https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/604669-mind-and-brain-video is also relevant to this series.
9 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Plasticidad Cerebral
Estos videos tratar de explicar cómo el cerebro humano puede adaptarse para aprender todo lo necesario para vivir en el mundo, incluyendo idiomas y normas culturales.
3 posts
- MDMarijke de Lang
History of Biblical Exegesis
6 posts
- MHMichael Hemenway
Internet and Cognition
This is a collection of artifacts related to the impact of technologies, particularly internet technologies, on human imagination and behavior. Even the way I have ordered these items suggests my own ideologies and preferences around these questions. Feel free to engage this material in any order you wish and use the Tags to follow other lines of interest.
11 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Culture and tradition
23 posts
- DSDeborah Shadd
Intertextuality
4 posts
- MHMichael Hemenway
Intersemiotic Translation
Resources on the relationship between semiotics and translation. Some of these materials are related to the intersemiotics seminars in Misano.
16 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Our Multiple Selves
These posts posit that beside the individualist, hierarchist, and communitarian selves of Douglas, Fiske, Haidt, and Shweder, we have other internal selves as well (past/present/future, experiencing/remembering, fast/slow, sensing/moving, conscious/unconscious). In some sense these internal selves need to be negotiated before we can negotiate higher levels of meaning (Goffman) with the selves of others. Interestingly, these posts can also be categorized according to the structure of the Negotiating Meaning series: the brain, language and society, and thought styles.
9 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Biblical background
3 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Memory
Most neuroscientists agree that memory is dynamic and reconstructive, which has a least a couple of implications for Bible translation. One is that it supports a view of (biblical, church, community) tradition as living and dynamic as opposed to simply static and conservative (though of course both memory and tradition have those aspects as well). Another implication is that if we want people to engage with scripture, we need to create contexts for processing the texts in multiple ways and on multiple occasions so as to move the experience/encounter from working memory to long-term memory, where it can become a part of further and larger dynamic and creative processes of personal and community memory.
6 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Brain Anatomy
Brain anatomy can be seen from at least three different perspectives: 1. structural, 2. topographic, and 3. functional. Humans (and animals) share huge amounts of basic structural anatomy, while we are obviously wired quite differently across species and individuals. Topographic anatomy refers to the fact that we have brain maps of our viscera, the skin of our bodies (quite detailed in our parietal lobes), and our peri-personal space, as well as maps of the world around us. But it is functional anatomy that is perhaps the key to how our brains work, Functional anatomy describes neural networks which are then referred to as if they were structural (e.g. Broca's area is the network or area that is activated when producing speech).
9 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Emotions, cognition and communication
These posts deal with human (an animal) emotions: where they come from, how they function, and how they are related to the rest of cognition. Their importance to communication should of course be obvious.
12 posts
- DRDaniel Rodriguez
Linguistique Cognitive
Cognitive linguistic resources in French
7 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Negotiating Meaning-part 2: Language and Society
Scholars as diverse as Mary Douglas, (anthropology), Erving Goffman (social psychology) and George Lakoff (cognitive linguistics) have recognized the importance of negotiation in communication. Alan Fiske's claim that language is always an attempt to negotiate human relations as well as to refer to things and ideas forms part of a thread that runs from Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionism and George Lakoff's experiential realism through to Mary Douglas' grid-group and thought styles. This negotiation takes place at all individual<>social levels, and can be analyzed from any number of perspectives. This series overlaps with the series parts 1 and 3.
27 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Negotiating meaning and identity
These posts have to do with negotiating our meanings and identities in different contexts. Identity negotiation is the underpinning of the rest of our negotiations in our interactions and communication with others.
15 posts
- BRBrian Renes
Checking - using Paratext tools
Paratext can find problems and inconsistencies. There are many limitations but at the same time many ways to improve the quality of work done.
5 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
The Floating University / Coursera / Big History
The lectures from this Big Think-related website are longer-about an hour each. These I think are relevant to our topic of negotiating meaning. They are meant as general introduction to the various files of study, but contain some very interesting and quite specific information as well. // Coursera is another site with full online courses. // The Big History Project is a History of the Universe course-very interesting, clearly secular yet respectful of religious belief as well.
11 posts
- SPStephen Pattemore
Relevance Theory - Supplementary Materials
This series contains additional readings which maybe useful to extend your understanding of RT and Bible Translation
5 posts
- SPStephen Pattemore
SP's Relevance Theory Channel
This is just an unordered compilation of my contributions on Relevance Theory
10 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Experiments in intersemiotic translation
These are various ideas about how to go beyond the traditional print media in scripture publishing/producing.
7 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Big Think
This website has many posts (many are videos) relevant to the topics of cognition, culture, and the negotiation of meaning. Most are from neuroscience and psychology.
11 posts
- RBRobert Bascom
Cognición corporal
La cognición empieza por la percepción, así que es importante entender la percepción como base de la cognición, y de allí del resto de la interacción y negociación humana.
10 posts