translation tagged posts

Walking through The Apocalypse, i.1-3

21 June 2010 Featured Highlights, Greek Translation  3 comments

Walking through The Apocalypse, translating from the Greek as a continuing student of the language and the Scriptures, and bringing up points I find interesting and significant along the way.

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Translating Didache, i.2

18 June 2010 Church History, Greek Translation  2 comments

Continuing my translation of the Didache text.

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Translating Didache, i.1

16 June 2010 Church History  One comment

Οδοι δυο εισι, μια της ζωης και μια του θανατου, διαφορα δε πολλη μεταξυ των δυο οδων.

There are two paths: one to life, and the other to death. And there is a vast (πολλη μεταξυ) difference between the two.

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Apokalupsis for today

15 June 2010 Bible Translations  6 comments

αποκαλυψις ιησου χριστου ην εδωκεν αυτω ο θεος δειξαι τοις δουλοις αυτου α δει γενεσθαι εν ταχει και εσημανεν αποστειλας δια του αγγελου αυτου τω δουλω αυτου ιωαννη ος εμαρτυρησεν τον λογον του θεου και την μαρτυριαν ιησου χριστου οσα ειδεν

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The Roman church greeted again, a bit later

11 June 2010 Early Church  One comment

Ἰγνάτιος, ὁ καὶ Θεοφόρος, τῇ ἠλεημένῃ ἐν μεγαλειότητι πατρὸς ὑψίστου καὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ μόνου υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἠγαπημένῃ καὶ πεφωτισμένῃ ἐν θελήματι τοῦ θελήσαντος τὰ πάντα, ἃ ἔστιν, κατὰ ἀγάπην Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν, ἥτις καὶ

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The NLT is not a scholarly translation?

29 March 2010 Bible Translations  9 comments

I recently noticed a short burst of folks on Twitter linking to James White's blog post, "Ephesians 1:11 and Bible Translation."

When I read Dr. White's post, I noticed the focus of the post was not on Bible translation, but on a debate he's

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Should we expect pastors to translate?

22 December 2009 Bible Translations, Featured Highlights  3 comments

I posit some quick thoughts on an excellent post by Rich Rhodes at Better Bibles Blog. The subject is whether pastors should be translators.

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A Chance to Win Some Bibles

13 August 2009 Scriptures  No comments

An excellent opportunity to pick up a Bible, especially for a chance to pass along another Bible to someone in need of God's Word. Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles

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Excellent Bible translation points

6 July 2009 Bible Translations  No comments

Via Wayne Leman from Better Bibles Blog pointed out some excellent statements on translation from Michael Burer of the NET Bible.

Here are the points:

Just because something has always been translated a certain way does not mean that it is

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