Dewey, David.

A user's guide to Bible translations : making the most of different versions / David Dewey. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004. - 239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-237) and index.

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.

0830832734 (alk. paper)

2004025514


Bible. English --Versions--History.

BS 455 / .D49 2004