Peter, you rock! And on this rock I will build my church.

Is there research into how Theology and choices made in Bible Translation interrelate and affect each other? I have a suspicion of such influence on a lexeme I'm studying & am hoping there's related research out there. Otherwise I have a lot of digging to do, & no time to do it.

I've not yet seen the NA29 advertized, but the UBS6 is due out in October (2025). Hugh Houghton's new Textual Commentary the end of July. And, the ECM Matthew in December. Our friends at the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft have been very busy!

Thrilled to share my interview with Robert Phillipson, renowned for his work on linguistic imperialism and linguistic human rights. It’s a call to confront linguistic imperialism and advance equity for Indigenous and minority language communities. More ➡️ jempub.com/wp-content/upl…

Confs: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages: We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28… dlvr.it/TLh4C2

📢 Call for papers Discourse Conference Theory and Application to Biblical Hebrew and Greek JANUARY 10, 2026 · DALLAS, TX discourse-conference.vercel.app

Every time a part of scripture is translated and people in that language begin to read and use that translation, Christians meet God in a new language, through a new cultural mindset, in a new way.

Beautiful the way Psalm 113:7-8 connects to Hannah's prayer in 1 Samuel 2:7-8 before culminating in: “He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!” (Psa 113:9 CSB). A surprise akin to a barren woman becoming pregnant (1Sa 2:5).

Arrived today and have skimmed the introduction Houghton follows reasoned eclecticism, is favorable towards the CBGM, is against text-types, covers 1232 variant units, still has letter ratings And it's not a reporting of the UBS6 committee decisions, but Houghton's own work

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” –Edward O. Wilson open.spotify.com/episode/00EH4U…

I've written some initial impressions of Hugh Houghton's new Textual Commentary (see link below). It'll be a standard reference work for the next generation and a great starting place for further textual research.

Some very good news for users of the digital edition of the Editio Critica Maior on Revelation: the introduction and supplementary material (thousands of pages!) should all be available as free PDFs online this year. 🔗 …ngelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/07/ecm-re…

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘palimpsest.’ ow.ly/ONaM50Wy33i

Word-for-word? Thought-for-thought? Or a canonical-hermeneutical approach? Ernst Wendland reviews Michael Straus’s “The Word as Word” in the latest Journal of Translation 21(1). 🔗 doi.org/10.54395/JOT-R…

Well now, here's a particularly troubling line of inquiry: “The entirety of the episode’s three hours was devoted to arguing that...Hebrew is a wicked language and that any biblical translation that uses Hebrew as its base is wicked as well.” forward.com/culture/761623…

Can languages be evil?

"Missionary David Lin spent his 17 years behind bars translating the Bible and ministering to his cellmates." Christianity Today christianitytoday.com/2025/08/david-…

God’s Word is never lost in translation "Whatever the vagaries of the human touch... the sacred survives whatever we throw at it and always shines through the complexity and uncertainty of our human comprehension." @catholicregistr catholicregister.org/item/2615-god-…