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The Historical Background of the King James Bible
The present article aims to investigate the historical and religious circumstances which incited King James to initiate and start the translation of the Holy Script anew though two other versions of the Bible in English were already there.
Seda Gasparyan
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The Odyssey of Archbishop Gavril’s Translation of the Bible
Translating the Bible is not an easy task in any language. Every translation of the Bible is a confirmation of the capacity of a language to convey the Bible’s manifold depths and meanings.
Girevska, Marija
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Androgyny/Hermaphroditism: Hebrew Bible [PDF]
The Hebrew Bible lacks a term for androgyny or hermaphroditism. The term tumtumim, which identifies persons of indeterminate or “hidden” sex, appears later in rabbinic texts.
Williams, Jennifer J.
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*
This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
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The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Myers, Allen C. The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary.
Dahle, David W.
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The Best-Selling Bibles: What Librarians Need to Know
This article presents guidance for librarians in the selection and recommendation of Bible translations. Pairing a reader with an appropriate Bible requires clear understanding of patron reading level and intended purpose along with a general knowledge ...
Livengood, Stephanie P
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The use and origin of the (Old and) New Testament as Christianity’s canon
This article explained the valuation of Christian believers with regard to the Christian Bible a ‘Holy Scripture’. In the article the notion ‘Scriptural authority’ was connected with an understanding of both the origin and use of the Christian canon ...
Andries G. van Aarde
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A massively parallel corpus: the Bible in 100 languages
We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language ...
Christos Christodoulopoulos+1 more
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