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Philip H. Towner
Philip H. Towner (born 1953) is dean of the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society, New York City. He is also research professor of New Testament at Ewangelikalna Szkola Teologiczna in Wrocław, Poland. He has been a faculty member of Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.) and the University of Aberdeen. He is also a translation scholar with particular experience in SE Asia and the Americas. Towner has served as Director of Translation Services for the United Bible Societies. He was also a founding member of the journal ''Translation Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...''. __NOTOC__ Selected works Books * * * * * * * * Articles & chapters * References External linksNSTS profile for Towner {{DEFAULTSORT:Towner, Philip H. 1953 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nida Institute For Biblical Scholarship
Nida or NIDA may refer to: People * Nida Allam (born 1993), American politician * Nida Fazli (1938–2016), Indian Hindi and Urdu poet and lyricist * Nida Eliz Üstündağ (born 1996), Turkish female swimmer * Eugene Nida (1914–2011), American linguistics and translation scholar Places * Nida, Lithuania * Nida, Oklahoma * Nida, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland * Nida Plateau in Greece * Nida (river) in Poland * Nida (Roman town), an ancient Roman town in the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt, Germany Other uses * ''Al Nida (newspaper)'', a defunct newspaper in Lebanon * ''Al-Nida' (Kuwait)'', Kuwaiti newspaper * Nida Civic Movement, a civic movement in Azerbaijan * NIDA (political party), a political party in the Netherlands * Nida, a character in the computer game ''Final Fantasy VIII'' * Niddah, the Orthodox Jewish laws of family purity * Typhoon Nida (other) * National Institute of Development Administration, a graduate university in Bangkok, Thailand * Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is an Ancient universities of Scotland, ancient university founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, Chancellor of Scotland, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV of Scotland, James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, Aberdeen, King's College, making it Scotland's 3rd oldest university and the 5th oldest in the English-speaking world and the United Kingdom. Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the top 160 universities in the world and is ranked within the top 20 universities in the United Kingdom according to ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', and 13th in the UK according to ''The Guardian''. The university comprises three colleges—King's College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent College
Regent College is an interdenominational evangelical Christian College of Christian studies, and an affiliated college of the University of British Columbia, located next to the university's campus in the University Endowment Lands west of Vancouver, British Columbia. The school's stated mission is to "cultivate intelligent, vigorous, and joyful commitment to Jesus Christ, His church, and His world." About 500 students are enrolled in full- or part-time studies. In any given year, one-third to one-half of students are Canadian, another one-quarter to one-third are American, and the remaining twenty to thirty per cent come from around the globe. History Regent was established in 1968 to provide graduate theological education to the laity, and only in 1979 started a program to train students who will become clergy. After the first summer school class, the graduate Diploma of Christian Studies began; within two years, enrollment grew from 4 to 44 students and the Master of Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translation (journal)
''Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal'', was a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering translation studies. Established in 2011, it was published by St. Jerome Publishing, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, and the San Pellegrino University Foundation. The editor-in-chief was Siri Nergaard. Other members of the founding editorial board were Stefano Arduini, Edwin Gentzler, Valerie Henitiuk Valerie Henitiuk (born 1963 in Manning, Alberta) is a scholar researching aspects of the intersection of translation studies, world literature, Inuit literature, Japanese literature, and women's writing. She is a Canadian citizen, recently retired a ..., Bob Hodgson, Paul A. Soukup, and Philip Towner. A collaborative initiative of the Nida School of Translation Studies, this journal collected the ways in which translation transforms the contemporary world. It offered an open space for debate and reflection on post-translation studies, moving beyond towards transdisciplinary dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Critical Commentary
The International Critical Commentary (or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament and New Testament. It is currently published by T&T Clark, now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Initially started over one hundred years ago, the International Critical Commentary series has been a highly regarded academic-level commentary on the Bible. It aims to marshall all available aids to exegesis: linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological. No unifying scheme is sought but each scholar has been free to express their expertise. Originally edited by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred A. Plummer and Charles Augustus Briggs (whom the Presbyterian Church in the USA excommunicated for heretical views on Scripture), the series has been in the hands of various editors since. The current editors are Graham I. Davies and Christopher M. Tuckett. Volumes * 552 pages * 489 pages * 434 pages * 476 pages * 421 pages * 574 pages * 534 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New International Commentary On The New Testament
The New International Commentary on the New Testament (or NICNT) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the New Testament in Greek. It is published by the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. The current series editor is Joel B. Green. The NICNT covers all 27 books of the New Testament with the exceptions of 2 Peter and Jude. Volumes * 1233 pages * 678 pages * 1020 pages ** Replaced 685 pages * 1094 pages ** Replaced 888 pages * 564 pages * 1184 pages ** Replaced 1037 pages *** Replaced 736 pages * ** Replaced 904 pages *** Replaced 415 pages * 692 pages ** Replaced 508 pages * 622 pages ** Replaced 375 pages *** Replaced 240 pages * 521 pages ** Replaced 470 pages *** Replaced 328 pages * 543 pages ** Replaced 200 pages * 522 pages ** Replaced 470 pages * 160 pages ** Replaced 470 pages * 400 pages ** Replaced 296 pages * 934 pages * 768 pages ** Replaced 448 pages * 536 pages ** Replaced 227 pages *** Replaced 249 pages * 288 pages * 291 pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Bible Commentators
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a variety of forms originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text can vary. The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible. It is called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning ''five books'') in Greek; the second oldest part was a coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent College Faculty
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state ''pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy, or the throne is vacant and the new monarch has not yet been determined. One variation is in the Monarchy of Liechtenstein, where a competent monarch may choose to assign regency to their of-age heir, handing over the majority of their responsibilities to prepare the heir for future succession. The rule of a regent or regents is called a regency. A regent or regency council may be formed ''ad hoc'' or in accordance with a constitutional rule. ''Regent'' is sometimes a formal title granted to a monarch's most trusted advisor or personal assistant. If the regent is holding their position due to their position in the line of succession, the compound term ''prince regent'' is often used; if the regent of a minor is their mother, she would be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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