The Bible Translator: Volume 28, Issue 4

Every team of translators setting out to translate the Bible needs to have a clear set of principles to guide it in its work. Clear guiding principles help translators to develop their translation along consistent lines. And they also give translators a focus around which they can discuss the various issues that need to be decided in the course of their work.
With the recent publication of the Good News Bible, it should be of interest to translators to see the principles which guided the translators of this new version. These principles should help translators to understand the GNB better, and they may also serve as an illustration of the sort of principles that need to be worked out for translation projects in other languages.
The principles which are printed below are those for the GNB Old Testament. They are printed just as they were prepared and used by the translators and those who helped them, even though they are somewhat technical in places.
Like any good set of translation principles these GNB principles do two things:
- They reflect the main concern of the translators - to produce a meaningful common language translation.
- They relate what is good translation in general to the task of preparing a particular translation in a particular language. View Less