[B-Greek] Greek translation / exegesis discussion groups

Edward Andrews edandrews at roadrunner.com
Mon Aug 10 19:45:01 EDT 2009


Joel:

I own a Bible-Translation group through Yahoo Groups. I want to invite you to join. In fact, I invite all who read this post to join. There are over 40 members, some are simply Bible students, who want to know more about their Bible. Others are professors at major universities. And others work professionally as Bible translators. It will be a great resource for you. Here is the web address to join:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bible-Translation/

Also, we have a Bible-Translation website, it is an education center, with major research areas and what books would be best to read for such academic areas as: Bible translation philosophies, Biblical Hebrew and Greek, linguistics, semantics, verbal aspect, exegesis, hermeneutics, textual criticism and much more. It can be found here:

http://sites.google.com/site/bibletranslationorg/Home

Also, we have a Bible-Translation Newsletter, it is a education newsletter that comes out the first of each month. August was the first issue, it is brand new. Once you are a group member, you can access the newsletter from the group, here:

 AAA - Bible-Translation Newsletters 

There has been predominately one Bible translation group over the last decade. I have been a member there for a few years, but have fell into inactivity, because I saw the need for another group. Here are my reasons as to why I started my group.

First, I must admit, I am still a rookie when it comes to Bible translation. I have studied the subject a couple hours a day, seven days a week for the last few years, as it has become a serious passion for me. I have covered well over 20 books on the subject and dozens of articles, some books I have gone through numerous times, Leland Ryken's The Word of God in English being one.

Why the need? There was an incident on the other group where a member disrespected and slandered another member. It was asked of the owner and moderators to have the person admit they were wrong and apologize or be removed, but the owner and moderators did not see the need. On my group there is ultimate respect. I boot any person who does not understand the Christian concept of respect.

Also, many academic groups are too narrow in scope. While my group is about Bible translation, you are free to discuss ANY related topic. Also, I am of the essentially literal camp and there was a need in this area.

As a side note to this group, if you haven't heard, Gordon-Conwell Offers Doctor of Ministry Degree in Bible Translation

http://www.gcts.edu/news/dmin_translation


Edward Andrews
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joel Conley 
  To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:01 PM
  Subject: [B-Greek] Greek translation / exegesis discussion groups


      I have looked around on the internet for groups that translate/do
  exegesis together and share each others notes/ observations/translations
  online.  Doing this would be a great tool for helping me keep up with my
  Greek.  The book isn't important (any NT book would suffice) and the pace of
  translation isn't important to me.  Does anyone  know if any discussion
  groups like this exist?  If so, where can I find them?  Thank you.
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