Light for the Last Days Magazine – Spring 2025 Edition
Contents
What is the world heading for? .......................... 1
USA: Golden Age or Fall of Babylon?................ 8
The Offence ...............................................................17
Signs of the Times.................................................. 25
Last Word................................................................... 31
#Trump #offenseofthecross #Islamophobia #Gaza #bibletranslation
What is the cost of blasphemy? Blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred. It's based on the Greek word “blasphémos,” a derivative of the words “blaptó” (meaning “hurt”) and “phémi” (meaning “declare”). In short, blasphemy is any declaration that damages what's meant to be held as sacred or treats it with less respect than it's due.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/the-cost-of-blasphemy/
#Bible #BibleTranslation #Blaspheme #Blasphemy #Christianity #Church #EnglishRevisedVersion #ERV #Faith #God #Gospel #Jesus #JustinBieber #TheGospelByGenZ #WesternChristianity
Translation Problems
Getting to grips with a problem in a timely way.
https://www.kouya.net/?p=49820
#Observations #AvrilPoisson #BibleTranslation #Humour #Madagascar
Bible Translation and AI
There is a value in speeding up Bible translation, but not at the cost of losing the human and community touch.
https://www.kouya.net/?p=49795
#Observations #BibleTranslation #Technology
#Christian #BibleTranslation #Comparision
If you frequently use a #Bible which version(s) do you prefer, and why?
#Boost #JoinIn #Bookstodon
#BibleVersions #BibleTranslation #ReligiousLiteracy
The free vs literal dichotomy of #translation was written by philosophers, not translators. Nida's formal vs dynamic equivalence was intended as a tool for translators, not a way of classifying entire translations. Let's ditch the dichotomies. We don't need them. We never did.
"One Matchstick: The Senga Fire" is an award-winning, 38 minute film on YouTube. Highly recommended if you would like to see how God is inspiring and enabling Bible translation projects so that more people can hear the Word of God in their own language.
The organisation called "Faith Comes By Hearing" wrote, "Last week our film won Best Short Documentary and the Mission Awareness Award at the 2023 Christian Worldview Film Festival."
Some basic Translation Studies concepts that are useful when talking about #theology and #BibleTranslation.
1) No two languages slice up the world the same way. "Mouton" in French refers to both sheep and mutton, for example.
2) Because of this, there simply aren't 1-to-1 correspondences between different languages, apart from preset terminology. Where this terminology exists, it is because people have made it exist, not that the two sets of terms were the same beforehand.
3) Yes, words to have multiple associations. Context does mean that some are more active than others.
4) Equivalence is therefore something translators, interpreters and terminologists create, not something that exists outside of a translation process.
5) A tense in one language is not strictly the same as a similar tense in another. Shifting tenses is therefore a valid translation technique, under certain circumstances.
6) No translation is final or perfect. Neither can any translation convey all possible meanings of a text. That's fine because conveying all meaning isn't what translation is about.
7) Translations are always done for a purpose or for many purposes. The prime way to evaluate them is against that purpose.
8) Literal translation is often not the same as accurate translation.
Our Divinity Library just opened a small exhibit on "Biblical Scholarship at YDS: A Bicentennial Retrospective" which traces the development of the biblical studies faculty and includes records of the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version Bible.
PDF online content: https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/Exhibits/Biblical-Scholarship-at-YDS-1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2BEwiDEQNoGCfRQgEIop5pWrk1XI6PNkdDIFShe9TPXMoPGl-ybquAtpU
#yale #YaleDivinitySchool #YDS #DivinityLibrary #Library #YaleDivinityLibrary #YaleLibrary #Bible #BibleTranslation #RSV #RSVBible #RevisedStandardVersion
While I was doing research for a book proposal, I discovered that this old article of mine on the miracle of Bible translation is now open for anyone to read: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/october/bible-translation-imperfect.html
Whenever someone expresses a strong opinion about #BibleTranslation to me, I always ask whether they use another language on a regular basis and what translation experience they have. That gives me the best starting point for the discussion.
Catching up on Advent meditations today.
Found out about this movie!
#BibleTranslation #1946movie #gaymarriage #lgbtq
So we just had a mind blowing thread on #Patriarchy & #Bible #misinterpretations over on #WCT. But it also sparked another conversation & one that always I find interesting regardless of audience. What #BibleTranslation do you prefer? I’m typically using #CSB or my #interlinears because they are the easiest for my teaching style. What’s everyone else carry?
This is just a reminder that the word "nation" in your favourite #BibleTranslation definitely does not mean "nationstate". It means something more akin to ethnic group or people group. The concept of nationstates is surprisingly modern, dating to the 18th & 19th centuries.
Something I have learned from studying the Bible through #ChurchInterpreter eyes:
Human religious systems like to erect barriers
- You can only take communion if you're a member,
- You have to use this one #BibleTranslation, even if you don't understand it,
- You have to dress like this,
- You have to know all this complicated language.
God's Kingdom breaks barriers
- Think you can't come to me? Hold on, I'll come to your house,
- I'll make sure you can hear the invite to repent and join my kingdom in the language your heart speaks,
- I'll clothe you with my righteousness and I'll give people who follow me the job of clothing people too,
- I'll explain my kingdom in language you understand: farming, fishing, business, politics, fathers & sons, building a house. And if you don't have the necessary background in the bigger story, I'll use the story and the altars you do know and show you how I was always there anyway.
Which is our #preaching more like? Which are our #churches more like?
