User's Guide to Bible Translations Making the Most of Different Versions

Name: User's Guide to Bible Translations Making the Most of Different Versions
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ISBN: 9780830832736

ISBN-10: 0830832734

ISBN-13: 9780830832736

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Dewey

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What Bible should you use?KJV. NIV. NASB. NRSV. ESV. TNIV. The Message. NLT. It's never been easier to find a Bible in English.Still, it's never been harder to decide what Bible to use. Formal or conversational? Traditional or inclusive language? Word-for-word, meaning-for-meaning or paraphrase?A User's Guide to Bible Translations escorts you through the history of Bible versions in English from Wycliffe and Tyndale to the English Standard Version and Today's New International Version, with explanatory glances at the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and brief introductions to translation theories along the way. In straightforward language, David Dewey explains how we ended up with so…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 1/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Permissions


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



The Task of Translation



The Translator's Art



Word-for-Word or Meaning -for-Meaning?



A Question of Style



His and Hers: Gender Accuracy



Yet More Choices



Translations in English



From Unauthorized to Authorized



Crossing the Centuries



A New Era Begins



Formative Years: The 1970s and 1980s



Old Faces in New Guises



Into a New Millennium



Reflections and Conclusions



Being Original



Other Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Translations



Internet Resources


Notes


Bibliography


Scripture


Index