Women as Bible Translators?

[TimV]

Translating is not teaching.
If a woman was to be a translator she would have authority over the texts that she works with, not over any men.
It would be a different question if she were to head up a translation team that included men.

Those who do not think the Bible translator is acting as a teacher fail to realize that Bible translation is not a neutral activity. It is not like doing a math problem. Any Bible translator knows this. The Bible translator is engaged in an act of teaching. Here is a part of an article written by a feminist

The evidence seems clear and Chrysostom, writing in the fourth century, had no doubts that Junia was a female apostle. Therefore, the only reason to translate the name as male is a presupposition that a female could not be described as an apostle. However, although the KJV, NRSV and GNB do use Junia, the NIV, RSV, JB and NEB all prefer Junias.

She give many other examples of how words and phrases are translated according to the bias of the translator.
http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/exploratory/articles/evans04.doc

 

[LadyFlynt]

And yet, you just proved that men not only can be unbiased, but they can be biased as well. And same with women.

 

[TimV]

And yet, you just proved that men not only can be unbiased, but they can be biased as well. And same with women

Jamal, I asked in post 27

Please no one try say that the translator of that Bible was a man, since it has nothing to do with the subject. The subject is that Bible translators TEACH MEN

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It has nothing to do with who's wrong. The point is the fact that there is the potential to be false teachers. A man that is a false teacher is wrong. A woman who is a false teacher is wrong.

I man in a pulpit who is a false teacher is wrong. A woman in the pulpit who is a false teacher is wrong.

The point is that the translator and the person in the pulpit are teaching. Not that they are wrong.

A woman in the pulpit would be wrong in the majority of churches or denomination of the people participating or reading this thread. If the woman was RIGHT in what she said, she is still WRONG for being in the pulpit, because she is TEACHING men.

 

[Pergamum]

This Junia topic would make a good new OP.
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And yet, you just proved that men not only can be unbiased, but they can be biased as well. And same with women

Jamal, I asked in post 27

Please no one try say that the translator of that Bible was a man, since it has nothing to do with the subject. The subject is that Bible translators TEACH MEN

.

It has nothing to do with who's wrong. The point is the fact that there is the potential to be false teachers. A man that is a false teacher is wrong. A woman who is a false teacher is wrong.

I man in a pulpit who is a false teacher is wrong. A woman in the pulpit who is a false teacher is wrong.

The point is that the translator and the person in the pulpit are teaching. Not that they are wrong.

A woman in the pulpit would be wrong in the majority of churches or denomination of the people participating or reading this thread. If the woman was RIGHT in what she said, she is still WRONG for being in the pulpit, because she is TEACHING men.

Yes, she is wrong "in the pulpit" exercizing ecclesiastical authority.


If she is not exercising ecclesiastical authority than she has greater freedom to "exchange ideas" with a man.

 

[turmeric]

Women often have a greater facility in languages than men, I think that would be useful in translating.