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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Could a missionary’s messy Thai Bible translation notebooks topple Caravaggio’s legendary St. Jerome as the ultimate portrait of a translator? 📢 New article in the Journal of Translation “Portrait of a Translator: Francis Seely and the 1971 Revision of the Thai Bible” by Doug Liao

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Mainz Cathedral, Germany, is showcasing the world’s largest Bible page in honor of the 625th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. The 5 x 7.2 meter (16.4ft x 23.6ft) page presents the first page of John’s Gospel with a translation from the Shuckburgh Bible.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Bible Translating as a Loyal Activity by Tobias Houston This book introduces Loyal Bible Translation, inspired by ḥesed, "covenant loyalty" and "steadfast love." Rooted in unswerving commitment, this approach balances loyalty to the source text with loyalty toward the needs of its audience.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Excellent food for thought here: "...focusing on Bible translators as 'agents of reception.' Translators exercise their agency in relation to the previous effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte) of the biblical texts, which they can either affirm or resist." doi.org/10.1515/jbr-...

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת doi.org/10.1163/1568... In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ever wonder what Saturday Night Live has to do with the Psalms? please don't destroy אַל תַּשְׁחֵת

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“a translation of δοῦλος with slavery terminology can encourage the much-needed postcolonial reflection on the role of church, Bible, and theology in the colonial enterprises of European nations.”

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A bit of Anselm on Mothering Sunday: As a mother cradles her child

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Now here's a fascinating article: “Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies” by Debra Scoggins Ballentine. In Bible translation studies, we've known for a while that capitalization has its limits (i.e., lost in audio).

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins. 2025. “Capital-T-Truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2): 123–45. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10144.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Translation is not just about access to information; it's about status, prestige.

Crom, Dries de. 2011. “Translation and Directionality in the Hebrew-Greek Tradition.” In Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterrannean in Perspective, edited by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino, 77–87. Manchester: St. Jerome Pub.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Aristeas weeps... “The most renowned translation of the Bible in general, and of the Hebrew Bible in particular, was made in the early 1600s and published in 1611. This King James Version...”

West, Jim. 2025. “Translating the Hebrew Bible.” In Understanding the Hebrew Bible: Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study, edited by John Barton, 386–94. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Listening through the KJV Bible this year isn't always easy, but boy is it memorable. For example, Pharoah's “get you unto your burdens.” bible.com/bible/1/exo....

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Looking forward to checking out this new open access work by Nathan Esala, published by SBL Press: “Biblical Translation as Invasion in Postcolonial Northern Ghana” #BibleTranslation www.sbl-site.org/publications...

Esala, Nathan A. 2024. Biblical Translation as Invasion in Postcolonial Northern Ghana. Vol. 18. International Voices in Biblical Studies. Atlanta: SBL Press.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Although accurate, if you can't read it in church, is it really a good translation? Updated edition of Latvian Bible replaces "'mauka' (whore), which was found in previous translations, with the word 'netikle' (hussy)" to be more "appropriate for public reading in church."

A new edition of the Bible, the holy book of Christians, has been published in Latvian.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The order of Genesis 20:17-18 is swapped and the verses combined in some translations to flow more chronologically/logically. Even though akin to reordering within a verse, translators seem less willing to reorder across verse boundaries. Why is that?

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"Alloy"? Sounds like someone used a thesaurus.

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

In the Gen Z version, the disciples are “stressin hard” and ask Jesus, “Bruh, you just gonna let the storm cook?” The divine bro responds by saying to the storm, “bro, chill,” and then “the storm said say less and stopped vibing.” 👉 edition.cnn.com/2024/12/24/u...

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Magnificat, traditonally "My soul magnifies the Lord," thus starts, "All that I am to my core celebrates the One in Charge" (Luke 1:46). youtu.be/vOkqm3ZZeUc?...

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Listening to Kendrick Lamar's new album GNX, I wasn't expecting to encounter references to Isaiah 14 and allusions to Satan as the "master of music." The lyrics database Genius takes a deep dive offering more than many study Bibles. "reincarnated" Kendrick Lamar genius.com/33694287

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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What place remains for Christian Scriptures in a multi-faith world? How can they be treasured? What role does #BibleTranslation play? An article I wrote last year was publsihed in IBMR over the weekend as "Re-owning the Bible: Treasuring the Scriptures in a Multi-faith World."

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