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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding English Bible Translation</title>
    <subTitle>The Case for an Essentially Literal Approach</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ryken, Leland</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Crossway Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>205 p.   ;  22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Part I: Overview of issues -- Understanding English Bible translation -- Questions and answers about English Bible translation -- Part II: The story of English Bible translation -- Laying the foundation -- Building on the foundation -- Building on another foundation -- Part III: The two main genres of Modern English Bible translation -- Divergent goals for Bible translation -- Divergent views of the Bible -- Divergent views of the Bible's authors, readers, and translators -- Divergent methods of translation -- Divergent styles for an English Bible -- Part IV: The ideal English Bible translation -- Fullness rather than reductionism -- Transparency to the original text -- Preserving the literary qualities of the Bible -- Part V: The Bible in the church -- Oral reading of the Bible -- The need for a translation that people can trust and respect -- Teaching and preaching from the Bible.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Leland Ryken</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible Translating.Bible. English.Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS449  .R949 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97814335027981433502798</identifier>
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