Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
As I remember	Edgar Johnson Goodspeed	The autobiography of Bible scholar, Edgar J. Goodspeed.	OL1209681W
Liber de optimo genere interpretandi (Epistula 57)	G. J. M. Bartelink	This is a German language book with scholarly commentary and critical notes on St. Jerome's "De Optimo Genera Interpretandi". The text of Jerome's epistle is edited Latin text, edited according to th…	OL1421831W
The Heretic's Wife	Brenda Rickman Vantrease	Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions—English Catholics opposed to the Luthe…	OL15044499W
Pŏnyŏk ŭi tʻansaeng	Hŭi-jae Yi	411 pages ; 24 cm	OL15511869W
Religious transactions in colonial south India	Hephzibah Israel	"Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and tr…	OL16190602W
Aistrigh leat	Maolmhaodhóg Ó Ruairc	184 p. ; 22 cm +	OL1745139W
I speak English and Chinese	Betty Kwong-Lee	Jen realizes why it is important to learn to speak Chinese when her teacher needs someone who speaks Chinese to help a little boy.	OL17940691W
Translation	Rahman, Anisur	Contributed articles.	OL18254205W
Biblical texts and African audiences	Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole,Ernst R. Wendland	vii, 204 pages : 21 cm	OL19032221W
The Queen's smuggler	Dave Jackson	Sarah tries to smuggle a New Testament into England in order to save the life of William Tyndale, a man imprisoned for translating the Bible into English. READ	OL19205527W
Periplus	Daniel Weissbort,Arvind Krishna Mehrotra	viii, 194 p. ; 23 cm	OL19570923W
A history of Bible translation	Philip A. Noss	"No other book has been translated over such a long period of time as the Bible, no other literary work has been rendered into so many languages, and no other document continues to be the object of s…	OL20950021W
Living translation	Smith, Bruce A.	Living Translation spans Smith?s 30 years of service in international ministry, which began with a providential missions trip to Guatemala as a teen, led to years of service overseas as a missionary …	OL24283028W
The jackdaw and the peacock	William A. Opel	"Bill Opel presents the reader with specific biblical stories or myths and then goes back to the linguistic and cultural roots of the story to show how it was crafted to suit the purposes of the crea…	OL24533771W
His grace is sufficent	Edna de Headland	You'll read that Edna and Paul Headland gave twenty-six years to the translation of the Scriptures into the Tunebo language. But it's not a simple project. You'll come to appreciate all that is invol…	OL28766058W
The text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England	Richard Marsden	xix, 506 pages, Ix pages of plates : 23 cm	OL3506374W
Choosing a Bible Translation	John J. Pilch	Which Bible translation is the best to use or to buy?" "Which does the Church recommend?" In Choosing a Bible Translation, John Pilch discusses two kinds of Bible translations: word-for-word (literal…	OL460168W
Tattoo blues	Michael McClelland	Tattoo Blues is a rollicking and playful comic-mystery, featuring runaway rich kid Desiree Dean who discovers her prized tattoo is a fraud - the Chinese character etched on her left breast says "with…	OL5888339W
Bod kyi sgra sgyur lo rgyus daṅ lo tsā ba rim byon gyi mdzad rnam gsal baʼi me loṅ	Wangduiciren.	History of translation activity in Tibet and biographical sketches of translators.	OL5977306W
Study New Testament for Lesbians, Gays, Bi, and Transgender	Dr A. Nyland	"A Study Bible (New Testament) for gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered people, with extensive notes on Greek Word Meaning and Context relevant to gay and lesbian people and to redress the discriminati…	OL9776806W