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History Organizations

Theory & Practice

Contextualization

• Translating the Old Testament in Africa: An Afrocentric approach - by Gosnell L. O. R. Yorke, Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship 4 (1988)

Inclusive Language

• Bible Translation and the Gender of God - by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., Theology Today 46 (1998)
• Inclusive Language and Linguistic Blindness - by Susan Brooks Thistlewaite, Theology Today 43.4 (1987)

Miscellaneous Articles and Essays

• Bible Translation - extended discussion
• Full of Sound and Fury: Translating the Bible in 21st Century America - by Steven Sheeley, Religious Studies News (SBL Edition) 3.7 (July 2002)
• Interaction between exegete and translator: A translator's view - by Aloo Osotsi Mojola, Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship 4 (1998)
• Old Testament translation and lexicographical practice - by J C Lübbe, Journal of Semitics 6/2 (1994); abstract
• Some Aspects of Bible Translation Concerning the Old Testament - by G. Ch. Aalders, The Bible Translator 4 (1953) 97-102
• Special Features of Old Testament Translation - by T. H. Robinson, The Bible Translator 2 (1950) 113-117
• The Art and Agony of Translation
• The Translation Task - by Patrick D. Miller, Jr., Theology Today 43.4 (1987)
• The Translator's Art - by David Dewey, chapter 1 of A User's Guide to Bible Translations: Making the Most of Different Versions (IVP, 2005)
• Translation - explanation of principles and practices used by the World Bible Translation Center
• Translation Principles - a brief statement from the Summer Institute of Linguistics
• What Translation Is - special feature in Religious Studies News (SBL Edition) 3.7 (July 2002), with contributions by
  • Walter Harrelson
  • Karen H. Jobes
  • Tremper Longman III
  • Patrick D. Miller
  • Barclay M. Newman

Online Discussion Fora

• bible-translation - e-mail discussion group

Organizations

• The Centre for Bible Translation in Africa - by Christo H. J. van der Merwe, Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship 4 (1998)
• Summer Institute of Linguistics
• World Bible Translation Center

Reference

• General Information about the Text - includes a survey of manuscripts and English translations
• Glossary of 31 Terms Used in Scriptural Translations
• Glossary of Translation Abbreviations - Religious Studies News (SBL Edition) 3.7 (July 2002)

Relation to Textual Criticism

• Translator or Textual Critic? - by G. Ch. Aalders, The Bible Translator 7 (1956) 15-16

Topical Articles and Essays

• Bible Translations: The Link Between Exegesis and Expository Preaching - by Robert L. Thomas, The Master's Seminary Journal 1.1 (1990)
• Philology and Power - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 613-30

Book Reviews

• Polliack, Meira. The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation: A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries C.E. - reviewed by Brannon Wheeler, Review of Biblical Literature
• Poythress, Vern S. and Wayne A. Grudem, The TNIV and the Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy (Broadman & Holman, 2004) - reviewed by Joseph Matos, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Ryken, Leland, The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation (Crossway, 2002) - reviewed by Christo H. J. Van Der Merwe, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)