Bible Translation Philosophy

Like the study of translation as a wider discipline, the philosophy of translation is a subject that has gained much more academic attention in recent decades than ever before. The Reformers’ and Puritans’ translation philosophy and adherence to sound textual principles fed through into all of Europe’s great confessions of faith of that era. Why did the twentieth century see such a huge and sudden innovation in Bible translators’ understanding of their task after such universal consensus among many previous generations of men separated by wide gulfs of education, time, and place?

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