The Bible Translator: Volume 14, Issue 1

W e are glad to print below an account of the first Translators' Institute. This is an important new aspect of the help which the Bible Societies endeavour to give to translators. I f is hoped to hold such Translators’ Institutes at various strategic centres in the world, so that ultimately virtually all translators will have the opportunity of attending such an Institute. Dr. Reyburn’s account is followed by the impressions of one of the participants, who, like most missionary translators, had previously received very little training in many of the highly technical matters dealt with at the Institute. Ed. View Less

This article has been translated and adapted from the Dutch. It is taken from the Collected Writings of the author, published in 1932, after his death, but was first given as a lecture to fellow missionaries in 1900. The matters discussed here are equally relevant to translation today. Ed. View Less

The following article is reprinted with some small changes from the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, XIII, 2, by kind permission of the editor. Maltese is an Arabic dialect strongly influenced by Italian. The Catholic version of the Bible discussed below was made by the author of the article and published in parts from 1929 to 1959, when if was completed. Critical reviews and references to it may be found in JNES, CBQ, JBL. Ed. View Less

Although the following article is not primarily concerned with translation, it will help translators to visualize the Pool of Bethesda with its five colonnades, which may lead to a clearer rendering of the passage. Ed. View Less

Sango is a creole language (derived from Ngbandi) spoken in the Central African Republic and adjoining parts of the Congo (Leopoldville, Chad, and Cameroun) by over one million people. The author discusses problems met with in the course of the current translation of the OT and revision of the NT. Ed. View Less