Translation for Translators

The Translation for Translators is an English helper Bible designed not primarily for ordinary devotional or liturgical reading but as a working tool for those rendering scripture into other languages. Covering the complete Bible and drawn from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, it works from a base text consisting of original-language texts together with translation helps. Its guiding philosophy is highly explicit and meaning-exposing: information left implicit in the source languages — figures of speech, unstated participants, cultural assumptions, and the logical links between clauses — is spelled out so that translators can recognize what must be conveyed in a receptor language. This purpose, and the expansive wording that follows from it, distinguish it from normal reader Bibles, though it is not a paraphrase in the ordinary publishing sense. It belongs to the broader tradition of translator-help translations produced to support Bible translation work worldwide.