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Which Bible? : a guide to English transations / David Dewey ; foreword by David Coffey.

By: Publication details: Leicester, UK : InterVarsity Press, c2004.Edition: British edDescription: xxii, 218 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1844740358 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • A user's guide to Bible translations : making the most of different versions. US ed
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.52/DEW
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Contents:
Part 1 The task of translation. The translator's art -- Word-for-word or meaning-for-meaning? -- A question of style -- His and hers : gender accuracy -- Yet more choices.
Part 2 : Translations in English. From unauthorized to authorized -- Crossing the centuries -- A new era begins -- Formative years : the 1970s and 1980s -- Old faces in new guises -- Into a new millennium -- Reflections and conclusions.
Appendix 1: Being original -- Appendix 2: Other twentieth- and twenty-first century translations -- Appendix 3: Internet resources.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-237) and index.

Part 1 The task of translation.

The translator's art -- Word-for-word or meaning-for-meaning? -- A question of style -- His and hers : gender accuracy -- Yet more choices.

Part 2 : Translations in English.

From unauthorized to authorized -- Crossing the centuries -- A new era begins -- Formative years : the 1970s and 1980s -- Old faces in new guises -- Into a new millennium -- Reflections and conclusions.

Appendix 1: Being original -- Appendix 2: Other twentieth- and twenty-first century translations -- Appendix 3: Internet resources.

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