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Theologizing in Africa: With Special Reference to Bible Translation in Chichewa

Conspectus, 2023
To “theologize,” that is, to engage in theological reasoning and exposition when composing oral, written, or multimodal discourse, has been applied continually in Africa ever since the Bible was first introduced to this continent.
Ernst R. Wendland
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Bible Translation and Orality [PDF]

Journal of Translation, 2013
In the last decade or so, the United Bible Societies have paid increasing attention to orality, features of orality in biblical texts, and what impact these should have on Bible translation. Articles appeared in The Bible Translator, an Orality Working Group was convened in 2008, a Source Text and Orality Workshop for Europe-Middle East translation ...
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Towards the design for a new Bible translation in Sesotho

Acta Theologica, 2008
The purpose of this article is to suggest a means of translating the Bible and other religious texts to provide for the needs of a community consisting to a large extent of members not able to read written texts.
T. J. Makutoane, J. A. Naudé
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Study of equalization of "Shuaib" in the Quran and "Isaiah" in the Bible [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2019
James A. Bellami is one of the orientalists thinking that there are some mistakes in Quran`s text; He believes that textual criticism must be applied to the Qur'an to remove it`s corruptions and produce a text the possibly nearest to original text.
Soheila Jalali Kondori, Mahdieh kianmehr
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Scripture Engagement and Bible Translation Project Management: The Case of Bono-Twi Bible Translation Project [PDF]

Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology
This article examined the intersection of scripture engagement and Bible translation project management. It explored various modes of scripture engagement, including literacy, local performing and visual arts, audio recordings, cell phones, and videos ...
Isaac Boaheng
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Revisiting the practice of Bible-translation: The need to engage ordinary believers when translating the Psalms

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
Many young isiZulu speakers find the 1959 Bible translation difficult to read and understand. However, they are interested in getting inside the black box of Bible translation, and being participants in the process.
June F. Dickie
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The Bible and its translations: colonial and postcolonial encounters with the indigenous

Acta Theologica, 2009
From text: The translation of the Bible is the one publishing success story in the third world. It seemed to have overcome the natural resistance of a primary oral culture to the written word.
Jacobus A. Naudé
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The translation of biblion and biblos in the light of oral and scribal practice

In die Skriflig, 2016
The Bible was composed both by way of oral tradition and by scribal activity. Various descriptions exist of the development and relationship of the dominant forms of orality and scribal tradition throughout the history of media culture.
Jacobus A. Naudé, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé   +1 more
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Translation for and in Performance: Fusion of Horizons of Hebrew psalmist and Zulu Translator-Performer in the Zulu “Performance Arena”

Old Testament Essays, 2018
This empirical study explores whether indigenous Zulu praise-poetry can inform the translation of biblical praise-psalms. Zulu youth (“poetry fans”) were invited to learn about Hebrew and Zulu poetics as well as the process of Bible translation.
June F. Dickie
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Towards a "literary" translation of the Scriptures: with special reference to a "poetic" rendition

Acta Theologica, 2002
This study proposes a more dynamic, or “mediated,” approach to Bible translation as one possible option (among many), should this be called for by the contextual circumstances of the target language setting.
E. R. Wendland
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