Semantic Voids, New Testament Translation, and Anachronism
This essay addresses the problem of theologically-inflected English translation choices of the New Testament, and how those translations come to bear in theologically disinterested scholarship on Christian beginnings. As a case study I examine the ubiquitous rendering of ekklesia as “church” in Paul...
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2014
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 26, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 315-339 |
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