Recent Publications by UBS authors...
11-01-06 Canon and Modern Bible Translation in Interconfessional Perspective (Edited by Lénart J. de Regt)
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the notion of scripture at Qumran? How should translators deal with the Greek and Hebrew texts of Esther and Sirach? Which deuterocanonical and noncanonical books should be included in Bible translations in, for example, the Christian East? What is the mean...
11-01-06 Kuo-Wei Peng - Hate the Evil, Hold Fast to the Good: Structuring Romans 12.1-15.13
Peng outlines a plausible structure for Romans 12.1–15.13. After a brief survey of scholars' opinions about the structure of this passage, three methodologies (structural exegesis, discourse analysis, and rhetorical criticism) are analysed. Having acknowledged that each of these methodologies has it...
11-01-06 Gerrit van Steenbergen - Semantics, World View and Bible Translation
This study draws a number of disciplines together from a Bible translation perspective. It offers a thorough semantic analysis of selected Hebrew lexical items referring to negative moral behaviour in the book of Isaiah and discusses the implications of the analysis for Hebrew lexicography and Bible...