From: dixonps@juno.com
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 18:30:46 EDT
Jonathan:
Why, if one replies to all, are two copies automatically sent to the
list, unless one is manually deleted ahead of time?
I enjoyed the article in Christianity Today. Thanks. I thought Nida's
definition of dynamic equivalency was worth repeating. He says:
"A translation should be the closest natural equivalent of the message"
in the original language. He also said all translations are
interpretive.
True, though in varying degrees, I think he would say.
The goal of most pastor/teachers, I would assume, being one myself, is to
interpret scripture likewise, that is, finding the most natural
equivalent
of the message in the original language.
Putting the two together, one could say a good translation then will
almost teach itself. Preach? Hmm, depends on one's definition.
Paul Dixon
.
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:23:39 -0700 Jonathan Robie
<jwrobie@mindspring.com> writes:
> I rather liked this little article on the trade-offs and difficulties
> of
> Bible translation:
>
> http://www.christianity.net/ct/7TC/7TC076.html
>
> Incidentally, you may find that for those who are not rather well
> educated,
> many of the issues of Bible translation are very abstract and
> difficult to
> grasp. For many people who do not know a foreign language, it seems
> that a
> literal translation should be a matter of simply moving the words
> from one
> language to another, without changing them or interpreting them.
>
> It can be helpful to let them try to translate English into English
> - to
> convey what a phrase means without using the same words - and to see
> that
> two translations can come out a little differently even within
> English.
> Even then, some people seem to feel that the only reason it is
> difficult to
> do this is that the original already used the obvious English words
> and
> didn't leave them with the right vocabulary to say it right.
>
> Jonathan
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>
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