Bible Translation

Bible Translation: Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Scripture translation in the era of translation studies
Aloo Osotsi Mojola

1.1 The dynamic equivalent approach to translation and its institutionalization
1.2 Evaluation of the TAPOT approach to translation
1.3 The emergence of translation studies as an autonomous discipline
1.4 Some contemporary translation approaches
1.4.1 Functionalist
1.4.2 Descriptive
1.4.3 Text-linguistic
1.4.4 Relevance theory
1.4.5 Post-colonial
1.4.6 Literalist
1.4.7 Foreignization v. domestication
1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Translation and communication

Timothy Wilt

2.1 Components of communication
2.1.1 Participants, text and medium
2.1.1.1 Participants
2.1.1.1.1 Relationships between participants
2.1.1.1.2 Relationships between participants and a text
2.1.1.1.3 A multitude of participants in the translation process
2.1.1.2 Text
2.1.1.2.1 Texts composed of signs
2.1.1.2.2 Selection and perception of a text's signs
2.1.1.3 The medium for communicating a text
2.1.2 Frames
2.1.2.1 Cognitive frames
2.1.2.2 Sociocultural frames
2.1.2.3 Organizational frames
2.1.2.3.1 Multiple organizational frames
2.1.2.3.2 Frames of a particular organization
2.1.2.3.2.1 Organizational structure and process
2.1.2.3.2.2 Organizational cultures and subcultures
2.1.2.3.2.3 Gatekeeping
2.1.2.3.2.4 Power
2.1.2.3.2.5 Training
2.1.2.4 Communication-situation frame
2.1.2.4.1 Some basic elements of any communication situation
2.1.2.4.2 Dramatic changes in the communication situations of Bible translation
2.1.2.5 Text frames
2.1.3 Goals
2.1.3.1 Some fundamental goals
2.1.3.1.1 Text goals
2.1.3.1.2 Organizational goals
2.1.3.2 Conflicting goals
2.1.3.3 Ritual communication
2.1.4 Exchange: focus on the translation process
2.1.4.1 Assessing the communication situation
2.1.4.2 Facilitating cooperation
2.1.4.3 Goals and resources
2.1.4.4 Academic and technical training
2.1.4.5 Producing the text
2.1.4.6 Evaluation 2.1.4.7 Further product development 2.2 Graphic representation of the communication model 2.2.1 Easy communication
2.2.2 Differences from earlier models of communication
2.2.3 Difficult communication
2.3 Conclusion

Chapter 3: The role of culture in communication
Robert Bascom

3.1 Katan's Translating Cultures
3.2 Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
3.3 Night, sun and wine
3.4 "Key"
3.5 A map of some fundamental biblical notions
3.5.1 Reciprocity
3.5.1.1 Tsedeq/tsedeqah
3.5.1.2 'emet/'emunah/he'emin
3.5.1.3 Go'el
3.5.1.4 Hesed
3.5.2 Frames and boundaries in ancient Israelite society: holiness and pollution in their social and religious contexts
3.5.2.1 Time
3.5.2.2 Space
3.5.2.3 Creation
3.5.2.4 Symbolic numbers
3.5.2.5 State
3.5.2.6 The human body
3.5.2.7 Dietary laws
3.5.2.8 Animal sacrifices
3.5.2.9 Summary
3.5.3 Sickness and healing in the New Testament
3.6 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Advances in linguistic theory and their relevance to translation
L. Ronald Ross


4.1 Universalism versus relativity
4.1.1 Metaphor
4.1.2 Spatial orientation
4.2 Typology
4.2.1 Constituent order typology
4.2.2 Grammatical typology
4.2.3 Typological semantics
4.3 Cross-cultural semantics
4.4 Pragmatics
4.4.1 The cooperative principle
4.4.2 Speech acts
4.5 Sociolinguistics
4.6 Discourse analysis
4.7 Information structure
4.8 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Biblical studies and Bible translation
Graham Ogden

5.1 Long-standing concerns: new finds and tools
5.1.1 Lexical and grammatical studies
5.1.2 Historical-critical studies
5.1.3 Textual criticism
5.1.4 Archaeology
5.1.5 Source criticism and redaction criticism
5.1.6 Canonical criticism
5.1.7 Intertestamental studies
5.1.8 Intertextuality
5.2 Some recent trends in interpreting the Bible
5.2.1 Reader-response criticism
5.2.2 Feminist approaches
5.2.3 Cross-cultural biblical interpretation
5.2.4 Post-colonial studies
5.2.5 Region-centric studies
5.2.6 Ideology and exegesis
5.2.7 Sociological approaches
5.3 Conclusion

Chapter 6: A literary approach to biblical text analysis and translation
Ernst Wendland

6.1 Unity
6.1.1 Connectivity
6.1.2 Intertextuality
6.1.3 Archetypes
6.2 Diversity
6.3 Rhetoricity
6.4 Structure
6.4.1 Genres
6.4.2 Pros
6.4.3 Poetry
6.5 Patterning
6.6 Foregrounding
6.6.1 Prominence
6.6.2 Progression
6.7 Imagery
6.8 Phonicity
6.9 Dramatics
6.10 Conclusion

7. Conclusion

Timothy Wilt

Appendices

A Cognitive frames: some pedagogical suggestions
B Courses for a 4-year Bible translation program
C Course outlines for Bible Translation I and II
D Seminar: Introduction to Bible translation
E Translation and communication: course outline
F Some communicational aspects of various translations

References

Index