The Bible Translator: Volume 17, Issue 3

Reviews the publication of editions of the Greek text during the past decade and states the case for the new UBS Greek testament. The editorial policies of the UBS text are briefly discussed. View Less

Main responsibility of the translator is to enable God to speak to men. Raises the question whether recent translations are man transforming the Word rather than the Word transforming man. View Less

Discusses specific translation problems in Luke. The following passages are discussed: Luke 3:2; 3:14; 5:1–11; 6:45; 7:35; and 8:55. View Less

The translator must first know the grammar of both the source and receptor language. Describes a method of structuring grammatical equivalences between the source and receptor language. View Less

While style is the communication of the writer’s personality through his work, some aspects of style may be analyzed and reproduced through training, intuition and experience. Much of the translator’s competence will depend on the totality of his culture, education, and special talents. Detailed and technical attention to style is one way by which standards of translation should be improved. View Less

This account of the background to current work on a new version in Turkish illustrates how ethnic, linguistic, religious and political ideas and events influence the history of Bible translation. The three main dialects represent cultural divisions with roots deep in the past. The goal of one unified version acceptable to all has proved to be elusive in the past, but the new version seeks to overcome these barriers. View Less

During the recent past much exploratory work has been done on the possibility of collaboration between Roman Catholics and members of other Christian Churches in translation and revision. We believe that many of our readers will be glad to read and keep for reference this English translation of a part of the Constitution on Divine Revelation approved at the last session of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. The full document consists ofsix chaptersand a preface in which the purpose of the Constitution is stated to be ‘to set forth authentic doctrine on divine revelation and how it is handed on’. Chapter I affirms that God chose to reveal Himself to men and that Jesus Christ is the perfect revelation of God. Chapter JI deals with the place occupied respectively by ‘sacred tradition, sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the Church’ in handing on divine revelation. In the following excerpts chapters III, IV, V, and VI are reproduced in full. The possibility of collaboration with other Christians is specifically mentioned in the last sentence in chapter VI. 22. In view of its special significance for readers of this journal we give the sentence in its official Latin form:-
Quae si, data opportunitate et annuente Ecclesiae auctoritate conficiantur (versiones) communi etiam cum fratribus seiunctis nisu, ab omnibus christianis adhiberi poterunt.
The translation reproduced here was issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington 5, D.C. Ed. View Less

We are glad to print a letter received from the Rev. T. H. Lyle on which we invited the Rev. H. K. Moulton to comment. Mr Moulton needs no introduction to readers of this journal and he is probably known personally to the majority of its readers. We hope the publication of this correspondence will encourage others to write to the Editor. Ed. View Less

Many translators are aware of the differing practice regarding the use of double and single quotation marks in English books printed in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. R. A. Paroz, a translator into Suto, in a letter originally addressed to the Translations Department of the B.F.B.S., mentions some passages where any completely logical system would require quotation marks to the fifth degree. Inconsistency is at times the best policy! Ed. View Less