Language Issues

Bible Translation Culture Language Issues

The Vernacular Treasure: A Century of Mother-Tongue Bible Translation

Bible translators realized that translated Scriptures sitting in warehouses fell short of their goal. Their real goal was that receptors use these Scriptures to draw closer to God. UBS refers to this goal as Scripture engagement; SIL and Wycliffe refer…

RichardSeptember 25, 2009

Language Issues

Like Bright Sunlight: The Benefit of Communicating in Heart Language

Does God really want His Word presented in "sacred" language, as so many people seem to think? Does not the Bible itself demonstrate that God reveals His truth through humble people in humble tongues, rather than in prestigious or “sacred”…

RichardJuly 13, 2009

Culture Language Issues

Why compete? Creating new functions for the use of the New Testament

The availability of Scripture in the traditional language is not enough to ensure shifting the patterns of language use already established in the church. In the Galat community the traditional language is used for informal, in-group communication in the domains…

RichardFebruary 27, 2009

Bible Translation Culture Language Issues

Goal: Vernacular Scriptures in Use

We have found that these three factors—the credibility factor, the comprehension factor, and the prestige factor—are all-important components in promoting the use of a newly introduced vernacular translation in a newly written language. This case history of the Paez, a…

RichardFebruary 25, 2009

Bible Translation Language Issues

Promoting vernacular Scriptures where a national language translation is venerated

One of the major obstacles for the acceptance of an idiomatic translation of the Scriptures into a vernacular language where there is some form of established church is that often there is a strong veneration of a translation of the…

RichardFebruary 16, 2009

Language Issues Marketing and Distribution

Diglot New Testaments – Pros and cons

Arguments against a diglot version focus on matters of cost, production time, and difficulty, and bulkiness versus ease of handling. Arguments for the diglot are mostly in the area of factors which will promote the use of the publication. The…

RichardFebruary 16, 2009

Advocacy Bible Translation Language Issues Marketing and Distribution

The use and lack of use of translated Scriptures

Common factors emerge that affect Scripture use: level of literacy, prestige of the language, and attitude of church leaders. A wide variety of reasons account for published Scriptures not being used. They include a lack of literacy, a language that…

RichardFebruary 2, 2009

Language Issues Marketing and Distribution

Diglots in the Philippine Context

Then I asked them if they would prefer a diglot … even if the cost were double. They all answered yes. Titrud presents substantial reasons why the Caluyanun New Testament of the Philippines was published as a diglot with a…

RichardNovember 14, 2008

Language Issues

The Vernacular Treasure: A Century of Mother-Tongue Bible Translation

Like Bright Sunlight: The Benefit of Communicating in Heart Language

Why compete? Creating new functions for the use of the New Testament

Goal: Vernacular Scriptures in Use

Promoting vernacular Scriptures where a national language translation is venerated

Diglot New Testaments – Pros and cons

The use and lack of use of translated Scriptures

Diglots in the Philippine Context

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