The Bible Translator: Volume 13, Issue 1

The third volume in the series “Helps for Translators” has recently appeared under the above title. I f has been published on behalf of the United Bible Societies by the American Bible Society, whose Research Associate, Dr. Robert G. Bratcher, edited the material in cooperation with the U.B.S. Subcommittee OR Translation. The price is $0.85, bur the book is available free to Bible translators on application to their Bible Society (Translations Department). In order to give translators an idea of the nature of the book we print below an extract from the Introduction. View Less

Volume four in the series “Helps for Translators’*, also edited by Dr. Bratcher in cooperation with the U.B.S. Subcommittee on Translation. will be available early in 1962, published by the American Bible Society on behalf of the United Bible Societies, free to translators on application to their Bible Society (Translations Department). View Less

The following questions and answers have been selected from the files of the British and Foreign Bible Society and of fhe Netherlands Bible Society. In the former case the answers have mostly been provided by Rev. H. K. Moulton of the Translations Department, and in the latter case by fhe Translators’ Advice Committee which consists of Old Testament scholars. In order to present this material in the most useful form we have freely adapted the wording, and refer to versions not mentioned in the original questions if these illustrate the point better for English-speaking readers. View Less