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In God’s Word as Translation, linguist and Bible translator Dr. Doug Trick discusses the process of translating Scripture. He examines some common assumptions regarding what makes a “good” Bible translation, and he addresses the notion of literalness, exploring whether the idea of a “literal” translation of any language is a valid concept. The course surveys the philosophy of language and then...

So far, in this model of communication, we’ve acknowledged enormous degrees of reduction as we go from reality to our experience of reality to our selective processing of a tiny portion of that experience, and then to our attempts to express a very selective portion of what we are processing. This is where linguistic activity begins.
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