How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding and Using Bible Versions
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translation that calls itself “literal” and one that is more “meaning-based”? And what difference does it make for you as a reader of God’s Word? How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth brings clarity and insight to the current debate over translations and translation theories. Written by two seasoned Bible translators, here is an authoritative guide through the maze of translations issues, written in language that everyday Bible readers can understand. Learn the truth about both the word-for-word and meaning-for-meaning translations approaches. Find out what goes into the whole process of translation, and what makes a translation accurate and reliable. Discover the strengths and potential weaknesses of different contemporary English Bible versions. In the midst of the present confusion over translations, this authoritative book speaks with an objective, fair-minded, and reassuring voice to help pastors, everyday Bible readers, and students make wise, well-informed choices about which Bible translations they can depend on and which will best meet their needs.
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- Provides an authoritative guide through the maze of translations issues, written in language that everyday Bible readers can understand
- Explains the word-for-word and meaning-for-meaning translations approaches
- Brings clarity and insight to the current debate over translations and translation theories
- The Task of Translation
- Making Words Work
- Translation and Culture
- Other Translation Issues: Text and Presentation
- The Bible in English
Yet another book on translation? Yes, and this is the one I shall now recommend to concerned Christians who want to understand what the perpetual flap over Bible translation is all about. Few will agree with every judgment in its pages, but for courtesy to all sides, accuracy in technical matters, clarity of writing, a deep commitment to faithful rendering of the original, and an abundant supply of that least common gift, “common sense,” this is the book on translation that deserves widest circulation
—D. A. Carson, research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The complexities involved in Bible translation are seemingly endless. Here is an excellent guide through its complexities—clear, irenic, informative, and appreciative. I don’t know of any book quite like this. It is a wonderfully attentive guided tour through the land of translations and their translations.
—Eugene H. Peterson, professor emeritus of spiritual theology, Regent College, Vancouver
- Title: How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding and Using Bible Versions
- Authors: Gordon Fee, Mark L. Strauss
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 170
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Translating; Bible › Versions
- ISBNs: 9780310514992, 9780310539230, 0310278767, 0310539234, 9780310278764, 0310514991
- Resource ID: LLS:HWCHSTRNSLTNLLT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-29T21:31:45Z
