By Philip C. Stine
Decide up approximately any English Bible this day, and you have got already encountered Eugene A. Nida-his effect is that common. Nida's dynamic-equivalence method of Bible translation helped to form the good news Bible, the modern English model, the hot overseas model, and the hot Jerusalem Bible. additionally, Nida's longtime paintings with the yankee Bible Society and collaboration with the United Bible Societies unfold his theories and techniques all over the world. Drawing on archival files and interviews with those that comprehend Nida top, "Let the phrases Be Written" examines and assesses the continuing impact of this student of wide-ranging talents and boundless power. Bible translators, scholars and students of translation idea or cross-cultural stories, and basic readers with an curiosity within the Bible will locate this quantity either available and enlightening. Paperback version is obtainable from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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Its staff of over six thousand women and men currently work in translation and literacy in Bible Translation before Nida 23 more than twelve hundred languages and have translated the New Testament into more than five hundred languages. SIL has also given basic training in linguistics and translation to hundreds of missionaries and translators from around the world. Contrasts between the Bible Societies and the Summer Institute of Linguistics Both the SIL and the Bible Societies have played major roles in the expansion of Bible translation work.
With quite different gifts, the two men complemented each other brilliantly. Nida focused on A New Approach 29 meaning, culture, grammar, and the relations among these elements of language. His later writings included Morphology and Customs and Cultures, as well as numerous books on translation. Pike stood out for his ability to analyze the sounds of language. His books on phonology and tone languages became required reading in universities and training schools. He also developed a theory called tagmemics, an approach to language that encompassed all human behavior.
It also allowed for generic titles, as in Jordan (River). At the same time, it insisted that the form of the original took precedence over meaning. Thus, following the tradition of the Authorized Version (King James Version) Bible, added words had to be printed in italics. One consequence of this “form over meaning” approach is that many readers have mistakenly thought that the italics indicated the importance of these words. By the early 1900s, the BFBS, NBS, and ABS had developed departments for examining manuscripts, or at least designated staff to handle this responsibility.