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From Orality to Orality

Name: From Orality to Orality
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Author: James A Maxey
ISBN: 9781606083246

A New Paradigm for Contextual Translation of the Bible

by James A Maxey

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Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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For Bible translators, missionaries and theologians

Explains how to use oral performance for translation

Empower local churches to share faith in new ways

An insightful study on how oral tradition and performance can shape modern Bible translation and local identity.

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Now a team of 60 – we've been serving the Church since 2004
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25,000 churches are using the Eden Plus account

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Description: In this groundbreaking work, Bible translation is presented as an expression of contextualization that explores the neglected riches of the verbal arts in the New Testament. Going beyond a historical study of media in antiquity, this book explores a renewed interest in oral performance that informs methods and goals of Bible translation today. Such exploration is concretized in the New Testament translation work in central Africa among the Vut