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Subcategories: General | African Readings | Bible Translation | African Hermeneutics

3. Bible Translation

Article Title: Translating the OT: An Afrocentric Approach
Author: G. Yorke
Website: MHS (URL )

Article Title: Bible Translation in Africa
Author: Ronald J. Sim
Website: The Tyndale Society (URL )

Article Title: Africa Bible translators led to Jesus through Scripture
Author: Charles T. Jones
Website: Mennonite Church Canada (URL )

September 19-23 2005, University of Kwazulu- Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Papers of the Bible translation sessions: Theme of Bible Translation sessions Biblical Interpretation and translation in Africa: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Theme 1: Interdisciplinary? Which academic disciplines concern Bible translation in Africa, and how?
Article Title: The Lack and weakness of African exegetes: Crisis in Biblical translation
Author: Nsiku, E.K.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: New Testament and African orality: Implications for exegesis and translation
Author: Maxey, J.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: World view theory and Bible translation
Author: Van Steenbergen, G.J.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Theme 2: What are the outstanding problems and challenges that confront contemporary Bible interpretation and translation in Africa?
Article Title: ICT and Bible Translation: an example from Judges 9:7-21
Author: Aroga Bessong. D.P.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Is it a case of a translator standing between Israel and Africa or a translator coming from Israel to Africa via Europe, or a misguided translation of the Bible?
Author: Baloyi, E.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Challenges of Scripture use in a Sabaot translation project: towards a participatory approach in Bible translation
Author: Chosefu, C.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: The publication of children�s Bibles in indigenous South African languages: an investigation into the current state of affairs
Author: Du Toit, J.S. & Beard, B.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Towards a new curriculum for Bible translator training in Mozambique
Author: Floor, S.J.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: A constrastive analysis of two standard varieties of Sena
Author: Funnell, B. J.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: The challenge of acceptability of the translation by the target language community
Author: Hill, M.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Big words and little ears� Bible translation and children in Africa
Author: Malherbe, J. B
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Language harmonization and orthography.A challenge to Bakgalagarhi lay translators of the Bible [Figure 1. | Table 1.]
Author: Monaka, K. C.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: The Translation of ruach or pneumas into African languages: A Figurative language theoretical approach
Author: Moomo, D. O.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Translator�s notes: English and French helps for mother-tongue Bible translators
Author: Patman, K.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Attempting a first translation of the Septuagint Psalms into Afrikaans � problems and challenges
Author: Steyn, G.J.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Theme 3: How does Bible interpretation and translation concern the Church in Africa today?
Article Title: The language factor in African Christian mission: Bible Translation and Biblical interpretation in the Church in Africa today
Author: Atta-Akosah, T.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: The Muslim Bible translation in the context of today�s African Christianity � a dilemma for missions
Author: Fabian, D.N.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: The effect of key term choices on local theology
Author: Hill, H.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Interpreter-mediated Bible readings from English into Manjaku in a Gambian church
Author: Karlik, J.N.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

Article Title: Theology and ministry in Africa through Bible translation: �How firm a foundation?�
Author: Wendland, E R.
Website: Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Afric (URL)

4. African Hermeneutics

Article Title : Biblical Hermeneutics in Relation to Conventions of Language Use in Africa: (Pragmatics applied to interpretation in cross-cultural context)
Author: Jim Harries
Website: Jim Harries Mission (URL)

Article Title :African Hermeneutics: The Current State
Author: Louis Krog
Website: Theology in Africa (URL )