Q&A: A Bible Translator Answers Your Questions about the ESV
The Crossway Podcast
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The Principles of Bible Translation
The original English Bible translator William Tindell, for instance, said it's a whole lot easier to translate from Greek to English and Hebrew to English than it is from Greek or Hebrew to Latin. The most common misunderstandings when they hear the term essentially literal are that it's just going to be the words in whatever order. "I prefer formal equivalence because the forms of the language are trying to give it in an equivalent fashion"
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