Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Summer 2024
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Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.
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Summer 2024
Volume: 31 | Number: 2
Lost in Translation: How Understanding Translation Helps Us Understand the Bible
In this issue of Mutuality, we focus on how the interpretation of scripture affects women’s roles in society and the church.
Contents
In this issue of Mutuality, we hope to bring the subject of Bible translation out of the seminary classroom.
There is more to translation than switching out words from one language to another. Knowing how translation works will help us understand and think critically about the many Bible translations available.
Far more than an academic exercise, translation has real-world effects. In India, an entire community was held back by an inaccurate Bible translation.
These two chapters are referenced as key guidelines for church leadership, but an investigation in the original language shows that these guidelines are not what have been traditionally taught.
A translator plays an interpretive role during the process of translation, and must intentionally be aware of personal bias that might affect how the translated text is rendered.
A brief overview of CBE’s Translation Project and examples help demonstrate the importance of this project.
Woman’s God-given identity and purpose has been “lost in translation” as Bible translations portray women as inferior and unsuitable to lead.