Monthly Archives: August 2008

Formal and traditional Bible translation

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 28, 2008
There’s been an interesting tangental discussion in TC’s recent post on “Whatever Happened to the HCSB?” regarding categorizing a translation like the ESV. We all know that the ESV’s publisher has utilized the term “essentially literal” to describe their approach, which is a pithy restatement of the classic RSV motto: “as literal as possible, as [...]
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The coherence of the Word

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 28, 2008
I’m slowly reading through Greg Boyd’s “God of the Possible” and came across the following quote, which was offered in the context of doctrinal coherence, but I thought had some interesting applications for the Bible translation debates: Such doctrines provide a framework in which the Word of God makes sense, and this [...] is important for [...]
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Kierkegaard: Works of Love

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 26, 2008
I recently ordered and received a used copy of Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love on the basis of several recommendations, including these Amazon.com reviews: _Works of Love_ by Kierkegaard is the most uplifting, encouraging, and hope-restoring book I have ever read. Kierkegaard’s statement that “the greatest act of love anyone can ever achieve is to mourn [...]
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Anglicans await the ESV Apocrypha…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 21, 2008
For an even-toned defense of the ESV and anticipation of Oxford’s edition with the Apocrypha, check out The spread of the English Standard Version at Quo Vadis, a blog by an Episcopalian priest in the Diocese of Tennessee, Jody Howard.
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Stylistic equivalent translation

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 21, 2008
John Hobbins at Ancient Hebrew Poetry has posted a new series of posts comparing the opening verses of Psalm 1 from contemporary formal (ESV) and functional (NLT) translation approaches, as well as his own rendering, which he labels as a Stylistic Equivalent (SE) translation: Psalm 1: A Translator’s Nightmare The Pros and Cons of ESV Psalm 1:1-2 The [...]
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