The book of Psalms in an English metrical version : founded on the basis of the authorized Bible translation, and compared with the original Hebrew; with notes critical and illustrative /

Mode of access: Internet.

'New heaven and new earth': translation and conversion on Aneityum

The idea that 19th-century Europeans and Islanders faced each other across virtually impassable linguistic and cultural boundaries has been a model for Pacific ethnohistory and can, perhaps, be traced in part to the Sapir-Whorf theory of linguistic incommensurability. Based on a case study concerning the translation of the Aneityum [Anejom] bible in Southern Vanuatu in the mid-19th century, the article considers whether the engagement between Islanders and missionaries might be better investigated through the dynamic dialogic model of Bakhtin and Voloshinov: thus speakers and interlocutors on Aneityum actively sought to understand each other through debates and dialogues about the new deity and His place in the spiritual cosmos of the island. The article first discusses the Protestant missionary defence of linguistic parity and commensurability and the formal practices of 19th-century British bible translation; then analyses debates on the new God's efficacy between missionary John Geddie and Nohoat, the foremost sorcerer of the area; and concludes by considering the translation of words particularly important to the Christian faith.

Vanhurskautta, oikeutta vai uskollisuutta? : ṣdq -sanue vuoden 1992 Kirkkoraamatun Psalmien kirjassa

Righteousness, justice or faithfulness? The Hebrew Root ṣdq in the Psalter of the Finnish Church Bible of 1992 This study attempts to answer three questions. Firstly, what do the derivates of the root ṣdq mean in the Hebrew Psalter? Secondly, with which equivalents are these Hebrew words translated in the Psalter of the Finnish Church Bible of 1992 and why? And thirdly, how is the translation of the root ṣdq in the Psalter placed in comparison with the translations of the root ṣdq in certain ancient and modern Bible translations? The root ṣdq has a very wide semantic field in Biblical Hebrew. The basic meaning of the root ṣdq is ‘right’ or ‘to be in the right’. The traditional English equivalent of the root ṣdq is righteousness. In many European languages the equivalent of the root ṣdq has some connection with the word ‘right’, but this is not the case in Finnish. The Finnish word vanhurskaus has been present since the first Finnish Bible translation by Mikael Agricola in 1548. However, this word has nothing to do with the Finnish word for ‘right’. The word vanhurskaus has become a very specific religious and theological word in Finnish, and it can be a word that is not obvious or at all understandable even to a native Finnish speaker. In the Psalter of the earlier Finnish Church Bible of 1938 almost every derivate of the root ṣdq (132/139) was translated as vanhurskaus. In the Psalter of the Finnish Church Bible of 1992 less than half of these derivates (67/139) are translated as that. Translators have used 20 different equivalents of the Hebrew derivates of the root ṣdq. But this type of translation also has its own problems. The most disputed is the fact that in it the Bible reader finds no connections between many Bible verses that have obvious connections with each other in the Hebrew Bible. For example, in verse Ps. 118, 15 one finds a Finnish word for ‘saved’ and in verse Ps. 142, 8 one finds another Finnish word for ‘friends’, while in the Hebrew Bible the same word is used in both verses, ṣaddîqīm. My study will prove that it is very challenging to compare or fit together the semantics of these two quite different languages. The theoretical framework for the study consists of biblical semantic theories and Bible translation theories. Keywords: religious language, Bible translations, Book of Psalms.

What Is behind God’s Name? Martin Buber’s and Franz Rosenzweig’s Reflections on the Name of God

What meaning does God’s name convey? This was a question Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig had to answer when working on their translation of the Bible. They noticed that, as certain crucial biblical verses suggest, there is indeed a meaning behind God’s name in the Bible. Thus, an important moment in their joint translation was their account of the self-revelation of God in Exod. III, together with the question of how best to translate the tetragrammaton YHWH— the name of God. This article will explore their decisions, based both on their dialogue concerning the translation of the Bible, and on their papers, especially Rosenzweig’s well-known article ‘Der Ewige’ (‘The Eternal’) and Buber’s response to it. Less well known is the fact that there exist two unpublished typescripts by Martin Buber reflecting on the name of God, which will also be taken into consideration. Contrary to the received view that the choice of the personal pronoun to transliterate the name of God in the Bible translation was mainly Rosenzweig’s, I will show that it was actually a joint decision in which both thinkers’ philosophies,1 and a question that had haunted Buber since his youth, played an important part. The choice of the personal pronoun is an answer to this question, addressing the omnipresent God, the eternal Thou, in a kind of cultic acclamation.

The four Gospels and the Acts of the apostles in Persian.

Edited by C.B. Lewis. cf. Brit. mus. Cat.

The four Gospels, with the Acts of the Apostles : in Sanscrit (sic.)

Title page and pagination also in Sanskrit.

O método de tradução de João Ferreira de Almeida: O caso do Evangelho de Mateus

Entre as traduções da Bíblia utilizadas nos países lusófonos, a clássica versão de João Ferreira de Almeida é a mais popular, mesmo quando o conceito de equivalência dinâmica é o impulsionador principal na produção de novas versões bíblicas. O texto da tradução original, tal como Almeida escreveu, jamais foi publicado e até agora não se conhece a localização de algum presumido manuscrito dela. As primeiras edições foram impressas com a revisão e aprovação do clero da Igreja Reformada Holandesa. Partindo do que se conhece da vida e da história da tradução de João Ferreira de Almeida, das seis primeiras edições do seu Novo Testamento e das edições do século XVIII do seu Antigo Testamento, esta pesquisa desenvolve um método para obtenção de uma edição crítica da obra de João Ferreira de Almeida, e o testa, produzindo uma versão crítica do Evangelho de Mateus.

Syriac–Aramaic words in an early Christian Arabic copy of the Pentateuch (Ms Sin. Ar. 2)

Este artículo se ocupa de las voces siriaco arameas incluidas en las primeras copias del Pentateuco (ms. Sin. ar. 2) del siglo X, que fueron traducidas a partir de la Peshīṭtā. Uno de sus reasgos más característicos es la existencia de residuos siriaco-arameos, especialmente en las palabras siriaco-arameas que no son comunes al árabe.

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : the text is carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present authorized translation, including the marginal readings and parallel texts /

Vols. [6-8], published in 1817, have title: The New Testament, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and are numbered v. 1-3.

The Holy Bible, according to the authorized version (A.D. 1611), with an explanatory and critical commentary and a revision of the translation, by bishops and other clergy of the Anglican church.

"Works ... referred to": New Testament, vol. I, p. lxvi-lxvii: "The principal works consulted": vol. IV, p. 493-494.

The Turkish New Testament incapable of defence, and the true principles of Biblical translation vindicated : in answer to Professor Lees "Remarks on Dr. Henderson's appeal to the Bible Society on the subject of the Turkish version of the New Testament, printed at Paris in 1819" /

Includes bibliographic references.

Remarks on the version of the New Testament edited by the Unitarians, with the title of "An improved version upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome's new translation ... London 1808" : being a dispassionate appeal to Christians of various denominations on some of the first ... doctrines of the Bible /

Includes indexes.

The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament: tr. out of the original Hebrew, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised: and the Greek New Testament; printed from the text and with the various readings of Knapp: together with the commonly received English translation. Designed for the use of students.

Text printed in columns on ruled leaves, with wide margins; a few manuscript notes.