Readability or Reliability: Are Bible translations trustworthy?

[Ransom]

This looks like a promising way to spend an evening:

It'd be nice to hear a lecture about Bible translations from someone who actually knows what he is talking about. Dr. Jeffrey is a professor of both hermeneutics and literature, which makes this especially appealing for me given my own academic background.

The sponsor, Ottawa Theological College, is a theology school operated by one of Ottawa's evangelical Anglican congregations.

 

[Enow]

A question:

Is the "fighting" in Fighting Fundamental Forums is an adjective or a verb?

And you should wonder why I have to ask.

 

[Ransom]

Enow asked:

Is the "fighting" in Fighting Fundamental Forums is an adjective or a verb?

And you should wonder why I have to ask.

No need to wonder. Your pedantry credentials have already been firmly established.

 

[bgwilkinson]

Evangelical Anglicans

These are the people that have taken the lead in English Bible translation for the last 500 or so years starting with Tyndale. (Of course he was still a Catholic at that time as the Church of England was still in communion with Rome.

 

[Ransom]

bgwilkinson said:

These are the people that have taken the lead in English Bible translation for the last 500 or so years starting with Tyndale. (Of course he was still a Catholic at that time as the Church of England was still in communion with Rome.

Up until the last century, at least, in which the most prevalent Protestant Bible translations (starting with the ASV in 1901) have tended to be ecumenical

I'd consider Tyndale being a Catholic as a technicality of affiliation. His theology was pretty much Lutheran.

 

[bgwilkinson]

bgwilkinson said:

These are the people that have taken the lead in English Bible translation for the last 500 or so years starting with Tyndale. (Of course he was still a Catholic at that time as the Church of England was still in communion with Rome.

Up until the last century, at least, in which the most prevalent Protestant Bible translations (starting with the ASV in 1901) have tended to be ecumenical

I'd consider Tyndale being a Catholic as a technicality of affiliation. His theology was pretty much Lutheran.

Of course you are very correct on Tyndale. He was I believe influenced heavily by his relationship with Luther. Many people try to make him out as a Fundamental Baptist.
The translating started hot and heavy when Erasmus got his first few (1516, 1519 and 1522) collated  critical text editions published of his Greek Latin New Testament. Erasmus was a Catholic too. He contended hotly with Luther over the doctrines of the Romish Church.