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Balinese Citrus, Greek Virgins, Hebrew Dogs: Part 2
In Parts I and III of this III-part series of posts, I wanted to emphasize the fact that languages (such as ordinary Indonesian and biblical Hebrew) are translatable. But “translation” need not be...
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They don’t snitch, don’t sue, don’t destroy our democracy
When Women Take Over Democracy: A Humorous Page on How Men Imagine that Reversal from Aristophanes’s play, “Women in Parliament” or Έκκλησιάζουσαι (also known as “The Assembly Women”), Written 390BCE,...
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Chapter and verse
Biblegateway blog introduces an amazing new Biblical Studies resource! According to Biblegateway Blog, HT James McGrath, HT The Biblical World, we know who introduced verses into the Bible because...
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Pagninus Latin Bible online
I am very excited about being able to read the Pagninus Latin Bible, 1528, online – many thanks to Mark for putting the link into a comment yesterday! The only other copy that I have seen was printed...
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Eavesdropping on Dinah’s rape
This short, sweet and sad story of Dinah, in Gen. 34, sounds quite different in the Latin of Jerome and Paula, and the Latin of Pagninus. וַיַּרְא אֹתָהּ שְׁכֶם בֶּן-חֲמוֹר, הַחִוִּי–נְשִׂיא הָאָרֶץ;...
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Denny Burk corrects Tom Wright: not his best moment
Denny Burk is taking on himself to criticize Tom Wright on the topic of 1 TIm. 2:12. In order to maintain that Wright is wrong, Denny has to prevent people from knowing that there is no evidence for...
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A Translated Stew of “Griefs and Sorrows”
One of the most recent English translations of Don Quixote is the one by James Montgomery in which the second sentence goes like this (with a footnote): A daily stew consisting of more beef than...
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Edith Grossman’s Translation of Gabriel García Márquez without “-ly”
Edith Grossman compromises, and contradicts, and does all the wonderful things good translators of good literature must do when they are asked to promote a particular theory of translation that gets at...
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How doth the little crocodile
A few years ago, I suggested on a blog that early English Bibles were translated more from Latin and German than from Greek and Hebrew. Hmm. I am not exactly sure of my exact wording and perhaps that...
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Problems with translating for meaning
In some recent posts and subsequent discussion, there has been a spirited debate over the merits of translating for meaning vs. attempting to translate wordplay. I want to illustrate the difficulties...
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Weird Bibles 5: Jamaican Patois Bible
Well, you’ve probably seen the news articles today – the Bible Society is now selling the New Testament (“Nyuu Testiment”) in Jamaican Patois (“Jamiekan Patwa”). Pretty impressive for a dialect which...
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group reading of Greek Isaiah
Abram K-J, blogger at Words on the Word, has started a group reading “Greek Isaiah in a Year.” He has invited others to participate via social media: Greek Isaiah in a Year on Facebook is the central...
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A city and a mother in Israel
In response to the study of Isaiah in Greek, I will try to dash off a few words. But I don’t expect to be converted to facebook overnight. Of course, I do use facebook, but only as a mother. I am, in...
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computing Ada
If you sat at your computer today, if you googled, then you saw this image, this google doodle: You have the person pictured in the image to thank, in part, for your being able to use that computer....
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What the editors of the QJB didn’t change of the KJV
What We Didn’t Change We didn’t change anything else to create this edition of the Queen James Bible. The Queen James Bible resolves any homophobic interpretations of the Bible, but the Bible is still...
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Le Nouveau Testament traduit en Suisse 1849
I just received a copy of this New Testament, from a family member. It was published in Lausanne in 1849, and curiously contains notes made in a very fine pen, which includes numerous crossing outs of...
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She spoke yet – Miriam did (a translation of Luke 1:34-38)
She spoke yet – Miriam did, to the angel: How on earth is this to go? When did a man I ever know? And it retorted, that angel did – it spoke to her: Breath of Dedication is to come upon you, Power of...
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personal language for the Patriarchy and our father
Yesterday was our first Christmas without my father. My mother is being refreshingly open about him with us her children and grandchildren, and she has been since he passed on earlier in the year. In...
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The Rhetoric of NA28©: “Do You Really Expect God’s Word for Free?”
We are as excited as J. R. Daniel Kirk, Larry Hurtado, and Jared Calaway that the 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is available for purchase both in English versions (for the...
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The Enthymeme (a translation of Matthew 9:1-8 NA28 Greek)
He embarked onto a craft He passed over He entered into his own city-state Dear reader, look: They bore to him a cripple Upon a cot discarded He looked: Joshua at their credibility He said to the...
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