From CBE’s 2024 Conference “Tell Her Story: Women in Scripture and History” in Denver, Colorado.
CBE is engaged in a Bible translation project. From 2019 to 2024, a team of nine scholars has been working on a selection of about 500 verses, addressing bias against women that has accrued over time. Each entry includes a fresh translation together with notes that explain the translation choices.
A project update in the summer issue of CBE’s magazine, Mutuality, gives two examples: Genesis 49:24–25, because it describes God’s care as “blessings of the breasts and of the womb.” And 1 Corinthians 9:3–5, in which the CBE Team translates Paul’s rhetorical question as, “Don’t we have the right to travel with a spouse who is a believer; like the other apostles, the Lord’s siblings, and Cephas do?”
In this keynote session, translation team members Boaz Johnson, Jeff Miller, Philip B. Payne, and Cynthia Long Westfall will give further examples from the project.