Bible Translation - Softcover

Timothy Wilt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900650568 ISBN 13: 9781900650564

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

This book offers a broad-based, contemporary perspective on Bible translation in terms of academic areas foundational to the endeavor: translation studies, communication theory, linguistics, cultural studies, biblical studies and literary and rhetorical studies. The discussion of each area is geared towards non-specialists, to introduce them to notions, trends and tools that can contribute to their understanding of translation.

The Bible translator is encouraged to appreciate various approaches to translation in view of the wide variety of communicative, organizational and sociocultural situations in which translation occurs. However, literary representation of the Scriptures receives special attention since it has been neglected in earlier, influential works on Bible translation.

In addition to useful introductory and concluding sections, the book consists of six chapters: Scripture Translation in the Era of Translation Studies; Translation and Communication; The Role of Culture in Communication; Advances in Linguistic Theory and their Relavance to Translation; Biblical Studies and Bible Translation; and A Lterary Approach to Biblical Text Analysis and Translation.

The authors are translation consultants for the United Bible Societies. They have worked with translation projects in various media and in languages ranging from ones of a few hundred speakers to international ones, in Africa, the Americas and Asia.

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Review:

This book is recommended to everybody interested in questions of translation in general, and problems of Bible translation in particular, as well as those curious to see the practical application of translation theory. (Sandor Albert, Perspectives)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1900650568
• ISBN 13: 9781900650564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306