How to Translate the Old Testament (Jack Collins)

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This month, we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of the English Standard Version—first published by Crossway in 2001. To help mark this milestone, this month we're releasing a number of fascinating interviews focused on the ESV and Bible translation. Today's episode is a conversation with ESV Translation Oversight Committee member Dr. Jack Collins on translating the Old Testament, why all Bible translation entails trade-offs, what it means to read (and translate) the Bible literally, and a whole lot more. To learn more about the English Standard Version, we invite you to visit ESV.org/translation. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

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0:00.0	This month, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the English Standard Version, first
0:07.9	published by Crossway in 2001.
0:11.0	To help mark this milestone, we're releasing a number of fascinating interviews focused on the
0:15.6	ESV and Bible translation.
0:18.9	Today, we're pleased to share another of these interviews, a conversation
0:22.5	with ESV Translation Oversight Committee member, Dr. Jack Collins, on translating the Old Testament.
0:29.5	Jack and I discuss why all Bible translation entails tradeoffs, what it means to read and
0:34.8	translate the Old Testament literally, and a whole lot more.
0:38.3	In addition to his work on the ESB Translation Oversight Committee,
0:42.3	Jack serves as Professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis.
0:48.3	He's also the author or contributor to a number of books and Bibles,
0:51.3	including, Did Adam and Eve Really Ex really exist and the ESV study Bible?
0:57.0	Let's get started.
0:58.0	Well, Jack, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.
1:05.0	Well, I appreciate you having me. It's good to be with you.
1:08.0	So today we're going to talk about a variety of facets
1:11.4	related to the process of translating the Old Testament into English, into our English Bibles.
1:18.5	And we're talking with you because you served as Old Testament chairman on the Translation
1:23.4	Oversight Committee for the ESV. And I want to get into that role, what that entailed, what your work
1:28.5	was like there. But before we do that, I have to ask a little bit more about your background.
1:33.9	I saw that you have a Master of Science from MIT. I wonder if you could share a little bit more
1:39.7	about what that was about. Sure. Well, my first training was in engineering at MIT at the bachelor's and master's level,
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