Naked Bible 161: Translating Genesis 1-11

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr. Heiser talks to the men behind a new translation project, John Hobbins and Samuel Bray. The first volume of their effort is entitled Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators. Our discussion focuses on the translation enterprise – what translators need to think about as they do their work. The strength of this new project is its thorough documentation by the translators of what and how they were thinking during the process of producing their translation. Over 130 pages of notes about the Hebrew text and its translation issues accompany the translation. The work comes highly recommended, and Naked Bible Podcast listeners can purchase the resource at a discount. Preorder HERE and use the code: GETNAKED to receive a discount.

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0:26.4	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast, episode 161, Translating Genesys.
0:31.0	1 through 11, I'm Delayman, Tray Strickland, and he's a scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.7	Hey, Mike, how you doing?
0:37.2	Very good.
0:38.2	Another busy week, but that's good.
0:40.8	It's good to be productive.
0:42.1	I hear you.
0:43.1	Well, this week we got two special guests.
0:45.3	Well, one I know from Wisconsin, my days in graduate school in the Heber Department,
0:50.8	and the other is new to me, but they've partnered together on a new translation of Genesis
0:56.3	1 to 11.
0:57.9	But it's more than a translation as we're going to find out.
1:00.9	It's a significant work in terms of the notes that are put into the translation effort.
1:08.3	I will say more about it, obviously, as we get into discussing it with them, but this
1:13.7	is something that I think people would really benefit greatly from.
1:18.1	If they were to get this read through the translation and just take advantage of something
1:22.7	that really answers the question, what do translators think about it more importantly?
1:26.1	They supposed to think about it.
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