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Page 4 TIC TALK - UBS Translation Information Clearinghouse NewsletterNo. 59 2004Recent PublicationsInclusion of an item in TIC Talk does not necessarily mean we recommend it, or that we have seen it, though in most caseswe have. It means that the article or book (sometimes by title alone) looks as if it might be of interest to our readers. Namesin bold indicate people who are in some way related to UBS. Other bolding is for quick location of the general topic.BibleTranslationSowing the Word: The CulturalImpact of the British and ForeignBible Society 1804-2004. 2004.S. Batalden, K. Cann, andJ. Dean, eds. Sheffield PhoenixPress. Essays prepared for the200th anniversary of BFBS andpresented in March 2004 surveythe impact of the Society’s workaround the world. Contents: K.Cann, The archives of the BFBS;L. Howsam, The Bible Society andthe Book Trade; R. Martin,Women and the Bible Society;S. Lane, Forgotten Labours:Women’s Bible Work and theBFBS; R. Steer, ‘Without Note orComment’: Yesterday, Today, andTomorrow; J. Dean, London BibleHouse in the 1950s: An IllustratedReminiscence; P. Mirrlees, JohnHill and the Early Attempt toStudy a West African Language;T. Strandenaes, Anonymous BibleTranslators: Native Literati andthe Translation of the Bible intoChinese, 1807-1907; E. vonMende, Problems in Translatingthe Bible into Manchu: Observationson Louis Poirot’s OldTestament; S. Batalden, The BFBSPetersburg Agency and RussianBiblical Translation, 1856-1875;S. Ovsiannikov, Bishop Cassian’sBFBS-Sponsored Russian Translationof the New Testament;D. Clark, Minority LanguageBiblical Translation Work inRussia: Then and Now; R. Clogg,Enlightening ‘A Poor, Oppressed,and Darkened Nation’: SomeEarly Activities of the BFBS in theLevant; P. Kuzmi? The BibleSociety’s South Slavic Bible in theBalkan Maelstrom; W. Detzler,Robert Pinkerton: Principal Agentof the BFBS in the Kingdoms ofGermany; A. Ridler, Obedienceand Disobedience: GeorgeBorrow’s Idiosyncratic Relationshipwith the Bible Society; S.Jackson, The Bible in Spain andGibraltar; J. Banks, The BFBS andNative Language Literature inNineteenth-Century Canada;R. Kverndal, Sowing by Sea:Empowering Seafarers with theGospel; and an appendix: ASummary Catalogue of the BFBSArchives, K. Cann.Philip C. Stine. 2004. Let theWords Be Written: The LastingInfluence of Eugene A. Nida.Drawing on archival records andinterviews with Nida’s colleagues,Stine’s thoughtful and engagingintellectual biography of Nidatraces and assesses his work,thought and influence in the areasof Bible translation, translationtheory, linguistics, and crossculturalstudies.Steven Engler, Susan Bassnett.2004. “Consider Translation: ARoundtable Discussion.” ReligiousStudies Review 30/2-3:107-120.The participants are a translationtheorist, a translator and poet, ananthropologist, and a religionscholar. The topic isn’t specificallyBible translation, but thesubject frequently comes up in thediscussion of translation andreligious studies.Christiane Nord. 2002. “Bridgingthe Cultural Gap: Bible Translationas a Case in Point.” ActaTheologica 22/1:98-116. N., whocollaborated with K. Berger in aGerman translation of the NT(1999) “based on modern functionaltranslation theory,” describesways they attempted tobridge the cultural gap, withreference to skopos theory, makingthe texts understandable to modernGerman readers without takingaway their strangeness.DiglotsO Novo Testamento InterlinearGrego-Português (Greek-PortugueseInterlinear New Testament).2004. Vilson Scholz, ed. BibleSociety of Brazil. The interlineartranslation was done by Vilson,with Bob Bratcher as consultantand reviewer. The UBS GNT4 textis printed in black and the literalPortuguese translation in blue onfacing pages. In the inner margins(two columns) are the texts of theAlmeida Revista e Atualizada andthe Nova Tradução na Linguagemde Hoje. This edition was editedand printed entirely in Brazil.Vilson explains that “It took ourpublishing team a long time tofigure it out (which helps toexplain why it took so long to getit published), but they came upwith some sort of ‘software’ whichwill make it possible for otherprojects to be finished in muchless time. As a matter of fact, otherlanguage communities will benefitfrom this, as interlinear translationsinto other languages, e.g.Swahili, are already in preparationand will be typeset and printed inBrazil.” It has been well accepted—thefirst printing sold outin a couple of months.
No. 59 2004TIC TALK - UBS Translation Information Clearinghouse Newsletter Page 5NET — Novum TestamentumGraece New Testament. 2004.German Bible Society; NET BiblePress. This diglot contains NA 27with complete textual apparatusand appendices combined withthe English text of the NETBible and a customized set ofnotes. These NET Bible notesfocus on issues of consequence forexegesis and language study,including comparisons with avariety of other major Englishversions, specially edited textcriticalnotes, and a 70-pageappendix with additional textcriticaldiscussions. Variantreadings where NET Bible differsfrom NA 27 are marked with doubledaggers. Key scholarly works arecited in the notes. The Bible canbe ordered online at http://www.bible.org/store/Modern translationsFrancois T. de Villiers. 2003.“Translation of Nonverbal Communicationin the Afrikaans BibleVersion for the Deaf: A ShortNote.” Scriptura 84:364-367.dV. points out that the non-verbalis a meaningful element ofcommunication in the text, and,accordingly, must be translated.He illustrates the point withreference to Job 30.28, andconsiders how such a translationmight be achieved in the AfrikaansBible for the Deaf.David Dewey. 2004. Which Bible?a Guide to English Translations.Inter-Varsity Press. In thisaccessible and informative guide,D. introduces the principles andissues involved in the task of Bibletranslation, traces the story of theBible in English and offers asurvey and evaluation of thedifferent versions now available.Michael A. Lyons and William A.Tooman. 2003. “Three RecentBible Translations: An OldTestament Perspective.” Journalof the Evangelical TheologicalSociety 46/3:497-520. Theversions compared are the EnglishStandard Version (ESV), the NewEnglish Translation (NET), andThe Message.E.A. Knauf. 2002. “Wichtigedeutschsprachige Bibelübersetzungen.”Bibel und Kirche 57/4:204-206. Very short assessmentsof 12 German translations.T.J. Chakkuvarackal. 2002.“Important Issues in the Translationof the Bible in the IndianContext.” Bangalore TheologicalForum 34/1:163-175. Discussesissues faced by modern translatorsin India in the areas of linguistics,source text, translation principles,and postcolonialism, considersproblems of interpretation in theIndian context, and lists somesuggestions for translators.J.M. Sánchez Caro. 2002.“Intervención de la Iglesia en lalabor traductora. El caso de leBiblia en España.” Salmanticensis48/3:387-432. Looks at thechurch’s involvement in Bibletranslation in Spain from medievaltimes through the 20th century.BibleGENERALA History of Biblical Interpretation,Volume One: The AncientPeriod. 2003. A.J. Hauser andD.F. Watson, eds. Eerdmans. Thefirst part of this volume on earlyinterpreters and their methodsconcentrates on the use of theScriptures within Judaism.Chapters examine inner-biblicalexegesis in the Tanak, the developmentof the Septuagint, theexegetical approach of Philo ofAlexandria, biblical interpretationin the Dead Sea Scrolls and theTargumim, the nature of rabbinicmidrash, the stabilization of theHebrew Bible, and the interpretationof the Bible in the JewishApocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.The second part probes themesspecific to Christian interpretation—howIsrael’s Scriptures areused in the New Testamentwritings, the hermeneuticalapproaches of the ApostolicFathers and the Apologists,Alexandrian and Antiocheneexegesis, the contributions ofJerome and Augustine, theformation of the New Testamentcanon, and the interpretation ofScripture in the New TestamentApocrypha and Gnostic writings.A description of the project andsome of the articles are at http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Interpretation.htm.L’Autorité de l’Écriture. 2002.J.-M. Poffet, ed. Éditions du Cerf.The essays in this collection arefrom colloquia at the ÉcoleBiblique (2000, 2001) in preparationfor the school’s new editionof the Jerusalem Bible that willincorporate advances in biblicalstudies of the last 50 years,especially those relating to notionsof canon and reader reception.Some titles: Y.-M. Blanchard,Nouveau Testament et canonbiblique; M. Gilbert, Textesexclus, textes inclus: les enjeuxand textes bibliques dont l’église adéfini le sens; P. Vassiliadis, TheCanon of the Bible (An OrthodoxView); J. Kugel, Biblical Authorityin Judaism; G.-E. Sarfati,Qu’est-ce qu’un texte canonique?;and C. Rico, La linguistique peutelledéfinir l’acte de traduction?John W. Miller. 2004. How theBible Came to Be. Paulist Press.M.’s focus is on the intent andgoals of those involved in theBible’s formation during threemajor canon-creating periods: thereforms of Hezekiah and Josiah,those of Ezra and Nehemiah, and2nd century Christianity. An
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