Liao, Doug. 2025. “Portrait of a Translator: Francis Seely and the 1971 Revision of the Thai Bible.” Journal of Translation 21 (1): 35–57. doi.org/10.54395/JOT....

Could a missionary’s messy Thai Bible translation notebooks topple Caravaggio’s legendary St. Jerome as the ultimate portrait of a translator?

📢 New article in the Journal of Translation
“Portrait of a Translator: Francis Seely and the 1971 Revision of the Thai Bible” by Doug Liao

AI & Bible Translation Innovation: Expert Interviews (2025) - YouTube

Nice new playlist of 8 videos on "AI & Bible Translation Innovation: Expert Interviews (2025) #eten

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Denmark says "Post-editing of machine translated books should not be called translation."

The Bible Translator 76.1 (April 2025)

Always a cause for celebration when a new issue of The Bible Translator is released.

The Bible Translator 76.1 (April 2025)
Quality Assurance in Oral Bible Translation

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What are the benefits of bilingualism? What does bilingualism do to the brain? Are there benefits to being bilingual? Turns out there are some surprising upsides.

Why being bilingual is good for your brain

What does bilingualism do to the brain? Are there benefits to being bilingual? Turns out there are some surprising upsides.

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Mainz Cathedral unveils world’s 'largest Bible page' to honor Gutenberg Mainz Cathedral in Germany is showcasing the world’s largest Bible page to the public in honor of the 625th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press and producer of the Guten...

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Mainz Cathedral, Germany, is showcasing the world’s largest Bible page in honor of the 625th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.

The 5 x 7.2 meter (16.4ft x 23.6ft) page presents the first page of John’s Gospel with a translation from the Shuckburgh Bible.

How to read the Bible through the eyes of thousands of languages – Baptist News Global Look up any verse in the Bible and you will find examples of how the ideas expressed there are conveyed in other languages and other idioms.

How to read the Bible through the eyes of thousands of languages

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Translation Technology: From Data to Drafting Insights and progress from Catapult and Slingshot in 2025

Translation Technology: From Data to Drafting
Insights and progress from Catapult and Slingshot in 2025

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Bible Translating as a Loyal Activity- Wipf and Stock Publishers How can Bible translations remain faithful to the original text while deeply respecting the cultural and religious contexts of their audiences? This book int...

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Bible Translating as a Loyal Activity
by Tobias Houston

This book introduces Loyal Bible Translation, inspired by ḥesed, "covenant loyalty" and "steadfast love." Rooted in unswerving commitment, this approach balances loyalty to the source text with loyalty toward the needs of its audience.

Excellent food for thought here:

"...focusing on Bible translators as 'agents of reception.' Translators exercise their agency in relation to the previous effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte) of the biblical texts, which they can either affirm or resist."

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Can AI be guided by the Holy Spirit? Summit explores intersection of tech, theology More than 500 participants from over 100 organizations across 30 countries traveled to a Dallas suburb this week for the sold-out Missional AI 2025 summit held at One Community Church s Plano campus

Can AI be guided by the Holy Spirit? Summit explores intersection of tech, theology

Google developer argues AI reach 'exposing the parts of us that were dead already'

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The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת
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In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.

Ever wonder what Saturday Night Live has to do with the Psalms?

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אַל תַּשְׁחֵת

“the problem often is not the meaning of δοῦλος itself, but the import of that “original” meaning into a modern understanding of slavery.”

Obscuring New Testament Slavery: A Study of the Translation History of Δοῦλος Translations of the New Testament have historically rendered the word δοῦλος as servant instead of slave, even if δοῦλος is not an ambiguous term. In more recent translations, δοῦλος is increasingly, ...

Martinsen, Anders, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “Obscuring New Testament Slavery: A Study of the Translation History of Δοῦλος.” Journal of the Bible and Its Reception (2025). doi.org/10.1515/jbr-...

“a translation of δοῦλος with slavery terminology can encourage the much-needed postcolonial reflection on the role of church, Bible, and theology in the colonial enterprises of European nations.”

A bit of Anselm on Mothering Sunday: As a mother cradles her child

A unicorn (!) in the Bible (?) | Anabaptist World Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?  — Job 39:9, KJV  As a child, I was fascinated by the differences among Bible translations. (Is it any wonder I grew up to be a biblica...

"...my ­fascination with the KJV’s unicorn has continued beyond my childhood. My training as a biblical scholar explains why KJV says unicorn when it should have been wild ox. But this answer might be just another attempt to exert human control over a mystery."

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Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies Abstract Stative capitalization is a means to indicate special status through capitalization in print communication. Authors have utilized stative capitals to indicate theological, metaphysical, and t...

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins. 2025. “Capital-T-Truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2): 123–45. doi.org/10.1163/1570....

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins. 2025. “Capital-T-Truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2): 123–45. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10144.

Now here's a fascinating article: “Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies” by Debra Scoggins Ballentine. In Bible translation studies, we've known for a while that capitalization has its limits (i.e., lost in audio).

“You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk” in Saʿadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch The article analyses Saʿadya Gaon’s translation of the prohibition “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk” found in Exodus and Deuteronomy, examining its variants in early manuscripts and Geni...

Fascinating read:
“'You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk' in Saʿadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch” by Tamar Zewi

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Using the Garden of Eden as a sexual innuendo, of course, reminds us of Song of Songs 4-5. See Landy, Francis. 1979. “The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden.” Journal of Biblical Literature 98 (4): 513–28. doi.org/10.2307/3265...

Lady Gaga – Garden Of Eden “Garden Of Eden” marks inspiration from the biblical Garden of Eden, using references like “poisoned apple”. In the lyrics, Gaga’s character can be seen as the serpent, a cunning

Hebrew Bible still inspiring pop songs in 2025.

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Crom, Dries de. 2011. “Translation and Directionality in the Hebrew-Greek Tradition.” In Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterrannean in Perspective, edited by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino, 77–87. Manchester: St. Jerome Pub.

Crom, Dries de. 2011. “Translation and Directionality in the Hebrew-Greek Tradition.” In Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterrannean in Perspective, edited by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino, 77–87. Manchester: St. Jerome Pub.

Translation is not just about access to information; it's about status, prestige.

“... from the very beginning, Bible translations have depended on theology — not only to justify Bible translation itself, but also to spur new translations from older ones.”

The Word Increased and Multiplied: Grasping the Complexities of Bible Translation In God’s kindness, English translations of the Bible abound. But why exactly do we have so many — and which version is best?

“The Word Increased and Multiplied: Grasping the Complexities of Bible Translation” by Peter Gurry

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