transcript of E V Rieu & J B Phillips' exchange

James Forsyth james at bigbeing.com.au
Sat Dec 14 18:04:05 EST 2002


Hi B-Greek,

Apologies in advance, this may be seen as barely "on-topic".

I am interested in the exchange between E V Rieu and J B Phillips on the 
merits of their respective translations of the four Gospels.

F F Bruce, in his "History of the Bible in English" (p 226f) says that it 
was printed in The Bible Translator in October 1955.  This was subsequent 
to its broadcast on the BBC on December 3, 1953.  He then goes on to give a 
summary of the debate.

At http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jul1960/v17-2-bookreview15.htm in what 
seems to be a scanned OCR document, that was originally intended to be a 
transcript of the above (see the first paragraph of section 265) but turned 
out to be some other discussion on the topic of Bible translation.

If anyone can lay their hands on a transcript of the exchange between E V 
Rieu and J B Phillips, or point me in the right direction, I would be most 
appreciative.  Theological library access is not really practical from 
here, and I have my doubts about the Bible College of Victoria (Australia) 
having a copy.

Thank you & God Bless,

James Forsyth




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