A Handbook on Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians
Overview
What if you were responsible for translating God's Word into a language that never had a Bible before? Can you imagine the burden you would feel to do a good job?
God takes His Word pretty seriously, and you would certainly do everything in your power to make sure that you were not putting words into God's mouth, but that you were providing a text that clearly communicated God's Word as closely to the original as possible.
This challenge to understand the heart of the original Scriptures, in order to put the original text into a new language, was the impetus for the United Bible Societies to create handbooks for Bible translators working on this very thing. The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures.
Key Features
- Exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text
- Verse-by-verse guides
- An essential tool for Bible translators
Top Highlights
“The words this treasure refer to the gospel and the task of proclaiming the good news about Jesus Christ.” (Page 78)
“Affliction may refer to either external suffering or internal, mental anguish, or both.” (Page 14)
“The resulting translation will be something like ‘my power becomes perfect in weakness.’ On the second point, there is no notion here of moral perfection; rather it is one of fulfillment or making complete. The power of Christ is made complete when a person is weak and depends on him.” (Page 223)
“The figurative use of tent points to the fact that life on earth is not permanent.” (Page 89)
“But not crushed: the term so translated has the idea of restriction or narrow confinement. It has been rendered ‘never cornered’ (REB and similarly TNT), while Mft has ‘not hemmed in.’ Knox has ‘yet still have room to breathe,’ and Brc has ‘never without a way out.’” (Page 79)
Product Details
- Title: A Handbook on Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians
- Authors: J. Ellington, R. L. Omanson
- Series: The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series (UBSHS)
- Publisher: United Bible Societies
- Pages: 268