b-greek digest: September 02, 1999

Ray Clendenen rclende at lifeway.com
Fri Sep 3 09:29:33 EDT 1999






Ray Clendenen at BSSBNOTES
09/03/99 08:29 AM

Phil Sanders wrote: <<I have been assigned the task of talking about the
task of translations to a
small rural church.  I felt that giving some history of translations and
some background on the methods of translation would be a wise start.  I
have
been investigating several books, including  Metzger's, Text of the New
Testament; Comfort's, The Quest for the Original Text; and Carson's, King
James Version Debate.  I also am looking at books by Jack P. Lewis.

What books would you recommend for such a study?>>

I think you'd find some great information and examples of Bible translation
issues in _A Translator's Freedom: Modern English Bibles and their
Language_ by Cecil Hargreaves. JSOT 1993.

Ray Clendenen
B&H publishers





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