The Bible Translator: Volume 39, Issue 1

A survey of the translator practices regarding different textual traditions are reflected in the notes the translators chose to include in English translations: Jerusalem Bible (with the most footnotes), NEB, RSV, NASB, TEV, NIV and NAB. It is not always clear what the translators intended by these notations. View Less

An examination of certain passages containing genitives where it is difficult to decide whether they are objective or subjective genitives is made. In particular the judgments of Vassiliadis and Lampe about translating Rev 10:10 are considered with the conclusion that unravelling enigmas are not the translator’s task. View Less

The question of whether a translator’s philosophy of translation is on the principle of dynamic equivalence or of formal correspondence may be decided in part by deciding on the original target audience. A new approach titled equivalent dynamics which seeks to avoid obscure and archaic terminology may solve some problems. View Less

The translation of the word dikaiosune and its cognates has been done using three word families: righteousness, justify and right. When one examines the way that the word is translated in Rom 4:5 in the TEV, suggests “in order to put him right with himself.” View Less

It seems linguistically certain that in a number of cases, NT writers describe as Hebrew, Hebraisti, a form which in fact is Aramaic; but that in other cases, possibly a majority, the language used was probably Hebrew. View Less