Bible Translation on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com. Jan Willem van Henten is Professor of New Testament and Hellenistic Jewish Literature in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.

"...readers are given invaluable insight into some of the major issues facing Bible translation these days as well as a fine introduction into some of the translators themselves." -Leonard J. Greenspoon, Creighton University

• Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Henten: Editors' IntroductionSijbolt Noorda: New and Familiar: The Dynamics of Bible TranslationJohn Rogerson: Can a Translation of the Bible be authoritative?Judith Frishman: Why a Translation of the Bible Can't Be Authoritative: A Response to John RogersonSimon Crisp: Icon of the Ineffable? An Orthodox View of Language and its Implications for Bible TranslationLénart J. de Regt: On Functional and Literal Equivalence, Once Again: A Response to Simon CrispRobert P. Carroll: Between Lying and Blasphemy or On Translating a Four-Letter Word in the Hebrew Bible: Critical Reflections on Bible TranslationAthalya Brenner: "Between Lying and Blasphemy": Responding to Robert CarrollLamin Sanneh: Domesticating the Transcendent. The African Transformation of Christianity: Comparative Reflections on Ethnicity and Religious Mobilization in AfricaTheo Witvliet: Response to Lamin Sanneh, "Domesticating the Transcendent. The African Transformation of ChristianityJeremy Punt: Translating the Bible in South Africa: Challenges to Responsibility and ContextualityWim J.C. Weren: Translation, Interpretation and Ideology: A response to Jeremy PuntMary Phil Korsak: Translating the Bible: Bible Translations and Gender IssuesCaroline Vander Stichele: Murder She Wrote or Why Translation Matters: A Response to Mary Phil: Korsak's "Translating the Bible"Everett Fox: The Translation of Elijah: Issues and ChallengesA.J.C. Verheij: "The Translation of Elijah": A Response to Everett Fox