What is the Bible?
66 books
What is the Bible?
The original text of the Bible was copied and distributed in 1400 BC and 400 BC.
Who are Moses and Ezra?
Moving the Bible from the source language (Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek) into the receptor language.
What is translation?
The goal of this translation is to alter the form until the text is comprehensible.
What is formal equivalence?
49 books
What is the Old Testament?
In 1947 Hebrew manuscripts were found in a cave near Qumran.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
In 400 AD, an early Christian Leader translated the Bible into Latin.
Who is Jerome?
The goal of this translation is to alter the form until the text is natural.
What is functional equivalence?
27 books
What is the New Testament?
There are almost 6,000 handwritten manuscripts of a part of the Bible in existence.
What is the New Testament?
In 1380 this man translated the first complete translation of the Bible into English.
Who is John Wycliff?
Can result in awkward English and inaccuracy.
What is weakness of the formal equivalence?
The Bible was written across 3 continents
What are Asia, Europe, and Africa?
Before the printing press, all copies were done by hand.
What are scribes?
In 1526, this man produced an English New Testament based on the Greek text rather than Latin.
Who is William Tyndale?
This translation has more interpretation so there is a greater margin for error.
What is a weakness of the functional equivalence?
The Bible was written in 3 languages
What are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?
Sometimes a scribe altered the text he was copying, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
What is a textual variant?
Word for Word, Meaning for Meaning, Thought for Thought, Paraphrase
What are the 4 approaches for translating the Bible?
The King James Version, New King James Version, and the ESV
What are examples of a formal equivalence translation?