Note: The author thanks Dr. Ant Greenham, the book's editor, for clarifying the penultimate paragraph. The review is incomplete without Dr. Greenham's comment left on Dec. 4, 2023, 6:34 PM. The current, treacherous state of the world of Bible translation is in large...
Samuel Marinus Zwemer was referred to during his lifetime as "the modern apostle to the Moslem World"”Personals: The Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer,” The Missionary Review of the World LIII [Old Series], No. 10 (Oct 1930): 799, 801;...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the last paragraph of Part I of this series, I presented several facts about Nida that would seem to have made it highly unlikely that he would be able to revolutionize Bible translation. Towards the end of Part II, I quoted Nida in which...
Whatever Happened to Christianity? is a question posed to “Muslim scholars and thinkers” by Dr. Fred Farrokh, a former Muslim and regular contributor to The Journal of Biblical Missiology. According to Islam, Christians have “gone astray” from Jesus’ teaching. In...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 Nida’s “revolution” in Bible translation could have never been accomplished without the coining of “dynamic equivalence.” In addition to it catching people’s attention in contrast to the more technical terms that he used thirteen years prior...
Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 Nida’s first monumental step to make Bible translations less literal began when he attended the third Camp Wycliffe (which was later renamed, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, or, SIL) in the summer of 1936.Hugh Steven, Doorway to the...
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 When dealing with that which is true, precise translation is always possible. If technical manuals and medical books, instead of being translated, were rendered as loosely as have been numerous versions of the Bible since the mid-1960s, it...
Earlier this year I received a request from YouVersion (a.k.a. https://www.bible.com/) to support their “Bible for Everyone” campaign by email (if you are on their email list you should have received it as well).email to author, Jul 27, 2022, 5:08 AM “What if the...
If you are wondering what connection baseball has to do with this website, I am sure that you are not alone. On July 5, I was watching the New York Yankees play against the Pittsburgh Pirates, hoping to see the Yankees mount another comeback win, which unfortunately...
This article abstract contains a link to download Adam Simnowitz's "Muslim Idiom Translation and Insider Movements for Muslims: a Response to Harley Talman and John Travis." An abridged version of the article has been included in the recent book Muslim Conversions to...
This is part two of a two part series on the Trinity. Part One: Unity has Plurality (Apr 16, 2018) Part Two: God's Love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Apr 23, 2018) In 1919 after the end of the Paris Peace Conference, then Emir Faisal (or Feisal), along with his...
This is part one of a two part series on the Trinity. Part One: Unity has Plurality (Apr 16, 2018) Part Two: God's Love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Apr 23, 2018) Selected references for God’s triune nature from the Old and New Testaments are provided at the...
Charles Montagu Doughty, the Englishman who traveled throughout parts of the Arabian Peninsula in the latter part of the eighteenth-century gave the following account under the subtitle, “fanaticism”: In an evening I had wandered to the oasis side: there a flock of...
Muslims need the Gospel! Distributing Scripture to them is one of the most relied upon ways to expose them to this glorious message of salvation from sin by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, increasing numbers of what is termed Scripture or...
Since its start in 1993, the annual, 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World prayer guide by WorldChristian.com has grown to play a significant role in the lives of many evangelicals. Written to coincide with the Islamic month of Ramadan, the 30 Days prayer guide has...
ASSESSING SO-CALLED SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION FOR MUSLIM AUDIENCES WITH A LOOK INTO ITS ORIGINS IN EUGENE A. NIDA’S THEORIES OF DYNAMIC EQUIVALENCE AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THESIS ABSTRACT Muslim Idiom Translation (MIT) refers to an increasingly common "approach" to...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is an addendum article from an original article written by Adam Simnowitz entitled, "Jeff Hayes and Al-Injil: Another Mistranslation of the New Testament in Arabic Intended for “Insider Movements of Muslims” or C5 (C5/IM)" Summary The following...
AUTHOR’S NOTE – OCTOBER 5, 2018: Al-Injil can be downloaded here An English "backtranslation" of Matthew-Acts can be found at https://alkotob.org/, then click on "The Honored Injil." The English may NOT always be an accurate reflection of the Arabic. For instance, in...
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