A user's guide to Bible translations : making the most of different versions /

Dewey, David,

A user's guide to Bible translations : making the most of different versions / [print] David Dewey. - Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2004. - 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.



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

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