Bible Translation on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century - (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by Van Jan Henten (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The format of the new The Bible in the 21st Century series reflects an international dialogue between experts and graduate students. In this book, experts on Bible translations present essays on the practices of translating the Bible for the present and the future, through Christian and Jewish approaches, in Western Europe and North America as well as in the former Eastern Bloc and in Africa. Each paper is paired with a response. The international contributors here include Adele Berlin, John Rogerson, Robert Carroll, Mary Phil Korsak, Everett Fox, Jeremy Punt and Athalya Brenner, and the debate is prefaced with an introduction by the Editors.

Review Quotes

"Its occasion was a new translation of the Bible into Dutch, but the principles apply to translation work everywhere...A most useful 11-page index will be especially welcomed by Bible collectors." - Daniel W. Decker, Bible Editions and Versions, July - September 2008--Sanford Lakoff

."..readers are given invaluable insight into some of the major issues facing Bible translation these days as well as a fine introduction into some of the translators themselves." -Leonard J. Greenspoon, Creighton University

About the Author

Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. Jan Willem van Henten is Professor of New Testament and Hellenistic Jewish Literature in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.