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Oral-based Bible translation: A contextualised model for the nomadic Himba people of southern Africa
In die Skriflig, 2021 Historically, the work of Bible translation has involved multiple disciplines in a commitment to translate Scripture with integrity and faithfulness to the original Greek and Hebrew texts.
Karen J. Floor
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Views of orality and the translation of the Bible
Translation Studies, 2015 This article presents an overview of constructions of orality that played an important role in the theory and practice of modern Bible translation. Three distinct perspectives can be distinguished. First we have the constructions of orality as articulated by Buber and Rosenzweig in the Interbellum period, a view of orality embedded in ideologies and ...
L J De Vries
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Translation for Performance: Biblical Performance Criticism in Bible Translation
ReligionsBiblical Scholars working with ancient texts are engaged in the daily task of Bible translation. A commitment to Biblical Performance Criticism (BPC) can be transformative in the task of translation.
Jeanette Mathews
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The Bible TranslatorAlthough the traditional concepts of accuracy, naturalness, clarity, and now acceptability are generally seen as keys to a quality translation, they are not the only consideration. That is, a quality Bible translation, whether oral or written, can only be appropriately assessed according to what the translation aims to achieve.
Tobias J Houston
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What do we actually translate in representing orality in oral Bible translation and performance?
Acta TheologicaThe translational situation involved in oral Bible translation and performance is complex. Oral features may be translated using Peirce’s semiotics as iconic (the sign bears a relationship of similarity to the signified), indexical (the sign bears a ...
C.L. Miller-Naudé +2 more
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Quality in oral Bible translation and performance
Acta TheologicaTraditionally, the quality of a Bible translation is measured by the criteria of accuracy, clarity, naturalness, and acceptability to determine whether it is equivalent, that is, faithful, to the incipient text. This article describes the development of
T.J. Makutoane +2 more
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Counting on oral Bible translation: Preserving language and culture through numbers
Acta TheologicaBible translation into indigenous languages has a wider social impact beyond its religious significance for Christian communities. This article discusses how traditional written Bible translation projects can impact the social situation of their ...
T.J. Houston
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Acta TheologicaBible translation plays an important role in spiritual formation, as it allows people to access God’s Word in their mother tongue languages. In Malawi, although the Bible has been available in Chichewa, a widely spoken language, for over a century ...
M.C. Banda
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Acta TheologicaThe Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) in Russia has recently started ten new oral Bible translation (OBT) projects in Dagestan, Russia, among minority language communities. There are no Christians or churches among these language communities.
B. Cleaver
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Emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition in English Bible translation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 In this essay, it is demonstrated that the inception of the English Bible tradition began with the oral–aural Bible in Old English translated from Latin incipient texts and emerged through a continuous tradition of revision and retranslation in ...
Jacobus A. Naudé
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