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...
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 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...
I am thrilled to call your attention to an invaluable resource for all Christians who care about the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) – open access to digitized copies of every issue of The Missionary Review of the World (a.k.a. The Review) available at...
Word studies, or looking at the use(s) of a word in Scripture is one of the best ways to study the Bible. Such an overview provides us with as comprehensive a picture as possible regarding what God wants us to know about a given topic or subject. With regard to...
In May 2012 two important documents over Muslim Idiom Translations (MITs) of the Bible were released. The first one was released by the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) and the second was Assemblies of God (AOG) USA. The details of these reports are vital to the...
الكاتب آدم سيمنوفيتز في 11 شباط 2013 بحسب ما ورد في العهد الجديد, العنصر الأساسي الدائم لشخص "يسوع المسيح" هو أنه "”إبن الله"”. وهذا يبدو جَلِياً في أهمية الفهم...
According to the New Testament, the key identity of Jesus Christ is that He is the Son of God. This is seen in the importance of the need to understand, confess, and believe this about Jesus in the following verses: Matt 16:13-17 13 Now when Jesus came into the...
In May 2012, the Assemblies of God and the Presbyterian Church in America released two papers addressing the astounding and growing phenomenon of specialized "translations" of Scripture for Muslims, the most prominent feature of which is the removal, substitution,...
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