The Complete Guide to Bible Translations Quotes

“Another translational problem is that many languages make use of idioms, or figures of speech, that mean something in the original language but not necessarily in the translated language.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Another reason Bible translation can be difficult is that there is a historical barrier between the original documents and the modern translator.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Bible translators must use their interpretive skills, remaining constantly sensitive to which nuance of meaning is being communicated by the original Hebrew or Greek word in a particular context so that the proper English word can be chosen to render that meaning.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in the original Hebrew or Greek languages and the English language.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“The reality is that Bible translation is not an easy task.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“The influence of [the Geneva Bible] on the KJV was enormous. The KJV translators employed this as much as Tyndale’s (of course, much of Tyndale was incorporated into the Geneva). And although King James despised the Geneva Bible, in the original preface to the KJV the Bible is quoted several times—and every time it is the Geneva version that is quoted, not the King James! This was an implicit and perhaps unwitting admission of the Geneva Bible’s superiority.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Myles Coverdale (1488–1569), who had been Tyndale’s assistant as well as an English clergyman, produced the first complete printed English Bible. This was a milestone in Bible translation history”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Modern biblical scholars tell us that about 90 percent of the New Testament of the King James Version was ultimately based on Tyndale’s work.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Tyndale once told a Catholic antagonist: “I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, before many years I will make sure that a boy who drives the plough knows more of the Scriptures than you do.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“Luther explained his philosophy this way: “I must let the literal words go and try to learn how the German says that which the Hebrew expresses…Whoever would speak German must not use Hebrew style. Rather he must see to it—once he understands the Hebrew author—that he concentrates on the sense of the text, asking himself, ‘Pray tell, what do the Germans say in such a situation?’…Let him drop the Hebrew words and express the meaning freely in the best German he knows.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You

“As one scholar put it, “No one has made more impact on the translation of the Bible into English than William Tyndale.”
― Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Bible Translations: *How They Were Developed *Understanding Their Differences *Finding the Right One for You