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The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation

The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation

Ryken, Leland
Collins, C. John

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1581344643
ISBN13: 9781581344646
Publisher: Crossway
Published: Nov 12 2002
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.68 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

With so many Bible translations available, how do you make a choice between them? How do you even know what the criteria should be for making a choice?

As an expert in English literature and literary theory, Leland Ryken approaches the translation debate from a practical artistic viewpoint. He believes that many modern translations take liberties with the biblical text that would not be allowed with any other type of literary work. Also, what readers are presented with as biblical text is actually far from the original text. In literature, a simplified version of Milton's work is not Milton, and neither is an edition written in contemporary English. Anyone who is interested in Milton would find any version that changes his words unacceptable for serious study. Ryken argues that the same dedication to reproducing literature texts as closely as possible needs to be present in biblical translation. To do so it is necessary to take into account the difficulty of working with original languages. Only an essentially literal, word for word translation of the Bible can achieve sufficiently high standards in terms of literary criteria and fidelity to the original text.

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