Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology

Overview

Stanley Porter and Mark Boda here bring together a group of respected theologians to provide an up-to-date assessment of translation of the New Testament in terms of textual criticism, translation theory, and theology. Each section includes theoretical essays on the interface of a given area with particular issues in translation, followed by applications of the theory to a common passage—the story of the rich man and Lazarus found in Luke 16:19-31. Advocates of different positions note the translational implications that follow from choosing a particular textual tradition or type over another. These differing perspectives allow for both theoretical diversity and concrete differences in the practice of translation.

Contributions to this volume include:

• "New Testament Textual Research, Its Methods and Its Goals," Barbara Aland
• "Rule 9, Isolated Variants, and the 'Test Tube' Nature of the NA27/UBS4 Text: A Byzantine-Priority Perspective," Maurice A. Robinson
• "The Significance of the Papyri in Revising the New Testament Greek Text and English Translations," Philip Comfort
• "The Text of Luke 16," Barbara Aland
• "The Rich Man and Lazarus—Luke 16:19–31: Text-Critical Notes," Maurice A. Robinson
• "Two Illustrations of Scribal Gap Filling in Luke 16:19," Philip Comfort
• "Assessing Translation Theory: Beyond Literal and Dynamic Equivalence," Stanley Porter
• "A Translation That Induces a Reading Experience: Narrativity, Intratextuality, Rhetorical Performance, and Galatians 1–2," Alain Gignac
• "Hebrew 10:32–39 and the Agony of the Translator," Luke Timothy Johnson
• "Comparative Discourse Analysis as a Tool in Assessing Translations, Using Luke 16:19–31 as a Test Case," Stanley Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell
• "Synchronic Observations on Luke 16:19-31 as Preparation for a Translation," Alain Gignac
• "Narrative Perspectives on Luke 16:19–31," Luke Timothy Johnson
• "Mistranslation and the Death of Christ: Isaiah 53 LXX and Its Pauline Reception," Francis Watson
• "On Probabilities, Possibilities, and Pretexts: Fostering a Hermeneutics of Sobriety, Sympathy, and Imagination in an Impressionistic and Suspicious Age," Edith M. Humphrey
• "An Intertextual Reading of Moral Freedom in the Analects and Galatians," K. K. Yeo
• "A Latin American Rereading of Romans 7," Elsa Tamez
• "To Squeeze the Universe into a Ball—Playing Fast and Loose with Lazarus?" Edith M. Humphrey
• "A Confucianist, Cross-cultural Translation of Luke 16:19–31: Ethics, Eschatology, and Scripture," K. K. Yeo
• "A Rereading of Luke 16:19–31," Elsa Tamez
• "Quo vadis? From Whence to Where in New Testament Text Criticism and Translation," Richard N. Longenecker