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Translation: What’s going on?
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xscot mcknight
Yesterday’s post discussed inclusive translation for public readings, but raised the question of what translation is all about. What are we doing, or trying to do, when we translate? I will begin with James 1:20 again. Here is the original Greek order of words: “Anger/for/of man/righteousness/God/not/produce.” Whenever we translate a sentence like this (from Greek)…
A Mild Case for Inclusive Translation
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xscot mcknight
In general, I believe most translations are fine — I can read the KJV and ASV and the NASB and NIV and the NLT and the NRSV and the ESV and even something as paraphrastic as The Message and say to myself, “That was good, it put some words in a new order and it…
Translation: How does it work?
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xscot mcknight
There is no reason here to get involved in all the discussions that linguists and translation theorists get into today. Here are some thoughts we need to consider when we talk about why there are translations. First, the context of translation is that those who do so believe they are translating the Word of God.…
Picking a Translation
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xscot mcknight
I got a request from an e-mailer to blog on translations. This is the first one of such posts. There are a number of good translations available, and there are advocates for each one, and they use a variety of reasons for why they are advocates for one over another. I think there is a…
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