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e would necessarily organize churches of christ non instrumental that is that they would replicate exactly o wonder his own community of faith incidentally during a recent visit i e in 2008 to the bible society in río piedras i picked up an inexpensive copy of the traducción in lenguaje actual tla the spanish equivalent of the cev after a week or so of reading several representative portions of this translation i have only this to say so help me if i ever again have to read a banal and basically meaningless adjective like special applied to such a wondrous and weighty subject as god s choosing of a people for his name endnote 1 by the same token neither does the bible take the view that all of its parts are equally un clear nor does it suggest that all its parts are equally in accessible posted in uncategorized 3 comments digging for hidden treasures in festschriften posted on september 29 2017 by fr esteban vázquez a couple of weeks ago eric smith of the iliff school of theology in denver tweeted in a bold act of confessio his considered but in some quarters quite unpopular opinion that edited volumes and festschriften often contain better more interesting work than juried articles and monographs i happen to concur with this eminently sensible judgment and so replied to express my wholehearted agreement noting in passing that the late great bruce manning metzger compiled an index 1951 with a supplement in 1955 of articles on the new testament and the early church published in festschriften pictured above and in fact a quick perusal of the works in question reminded me that professor metzger himself was in full agreement he says in the preface that the average article in festschriften is of a higher caliber since every scholar and particularly a disciple is quite naturally eager to do honor to his teacher or colleague by producing a contribution of lasting significance 1 in his memoir reminiscences of an octogenarian to which we have had occasion to refer earlier professor metzger gives a brief account of this bibliographical project he comments that while assembling and publishing a festschrift has been a pleasant way of acknowledging publically the contributions to scholarship made by the person to whom the volume was dedicated 2 there is a long acknowledged negative side to such a publication which he describes with a story from the memoirs of another late great scholar frederick fyvie bruce back in my i e bruce s cambridge days peter giles master of emmanuel college used to tell us that any scholar who wrote an article for a festschrift might as well dig a hole in his back garden and bury it for in a year or two it would be forgotten and there would be no convenient means of recording its existence 3 from this it is a short distance indeed to r g collingwood s well known desideratum that he may escape otherwise than by death the last humiliation of an aged scholar when his juniors conspire to print a volume of essays and offer it to him as a sign that they now consider him senile 4 no wonder that in addition to being compared a hole in the back garden by master giles of emmanuel festschriften have been described as the graveyard of scholarship 5 both of which endeavors incidentally require a fair bit of digging undaunted by these considerations professor metzger relates that in his pursuit of fugitive festschriften and their hidden treasures he dug instead beyond the field of new testament into such fields as ancient art and archaeology byzantine research the classics egyptology english literature intertestamental literature judaica the mystery cults mythology coins oriental languages and literatures paleography papyrology patristics philology in general philosophy and theology in general 6 a broad scope indeed in the preface to the supplement he gives the number of indexed festschriften as 640 and states that the number of indexed articles comes to nearly 2350 written in a score of languages 7 not a few of these he notes are dedicated to scholars whose chief interests were far removed from the new testament and the early church so that many of the festschriften here recorded contain only a single article germane to the interests of the compiler 8 he mentions almost in passing visits to european libraries and bookstores in pursuit of the over 1200 volumes actually reviewed for the index remarking almost wistfully that the task of ferreting out festschriften is almost endless and utmost diligence in ransacking all the ordinary sources is only supplemented by knowledge that comes only by chance 9 metzger s index attempted to include all pertinent material from the time that the custom of publishing festschriften began down to the close of 1950 the half century mark being an appropriate terminus ad quem 10 he notes in the supplement that an index of medieval studies published in festschriften from 1865 to 1946 and prepared by harry f williams appeared serendipitously on the same year as metzger s available online here as it happens the two volumes supplement each other admirably for metzger s covers the first five centuries of the christian era and williams begins with the sixth century 11 to this must be added the still more impressive achievement by dorothy rounds articles on antiquity in festschriften an index cambridge ma harvard university press 1962 which covers the fields of the ancient near east the old testament greece rome roman law and byzantium from 1863 to 1954 available online here now a question who will be our metzger today yes we are fortunate to have resources like the elenchus of biblica to 2011 and new testament abstracts ongoing at our disposal yet neither of these quite provides us with what metzger gave to us or what williams rounds and yet others have given to other fields even if all festschriften and edited volumes were always indexed with regard to their specific contents and they are not what of those essays in broader collections that might fall outside the scope of the technical publications in the field again metzger found that there are many of these with not a few festschriften featuring a single article relevant to our purposes who is searching for those and indexing them metzger gave us a thorough index to the end of 1950 it isn t too far fetched to conceive of a second index this time from 1951 to the end of the year 2000 as a new terminus ad quem surely there is some budding theological bibliographer out there with an appetite for detective work whose name we can bless for generations allow me in closing to illustrate the need for such an undertaking by making reference to the work of some distinguished scholar picked entirely at random say moisés silva now i happen to know that professor silva has contributed to at least nine festschriften bruce 1980 hughes 1985 greenlee 1992 louw 1992 gundry 1994 which he co edited metzger 1995 o brien 2001 pietersma 2001 and youngblood 2003 12 unless you happen to be actively engaged in the work of acquiring the silvanic opera omnia as one does then you would be hard pressed to learn that e g the 1994 volume features an exceedingly important article on eschatological structures in galatians whereas the 1992 volume carries an illuminating discussion of the text of galatians in early manuscripts and the 2001 volume gives an solid account of paul s mission according to galatians 13 it is precisely this sort of blind spot which only impoverishes the breadth and quality of research that a full and thematic index helps of us to resolve endnotes 1 bruce m metzger index of articles on the new testament and the early church published in festschriften journal of biblical literature monograph series 5 philadelphia pa society of biblical literature 1951 vii 2 bruce manning metzger reminiscences of an octogenarian peabody ma hendrickson 1995 152 3 as quoted in metzger ibid it bears noting that professor bruce was himself honored not by one but two festschriften both of which i happily possess the second of these published like professor bruce s memoir in 1980 happens to contain a little known article by his only infallible doctoral advisee 4 cf r g collingwood an autobiography oxford oxford university press 1939 113 perhaps it should be noted that he did escape but alas not otherwise than by death he did not escape however the indignity of having his invaluable unpublished work edited posthumously by a junior colleague 5 cf a compilation of the more notorious epithets in the literature all duly footnoted and serially dismissed in robert pick some thoughts on festschriften and a projected subject index german life and letters 12 no 3 1959 204 210 6 ibid 153 cf also index viii from which this section is taken verbatim 7 bruce m metzger supplement to index of articles on the new testament and the early church published in festschriften journal of biblical literature monograph series supplement to 5 philadelphia pa society of biblical literature 1955 iii 8 ibid iv 9 even the second hand book catalogue cf metzger index xi 10 metzger supplement ibid for an historical account of festschriften cf the still unsurpassed article by dorothy rounds and dow sterling festschriften harvard library bulletin viii no 3 autumn 1954 283 298 available online here 11 metzger ibid 12 to the best of my knowledge that is if the reader happens to be aware of some other festschrift to which professor silva has contributed and could forward the bibliographical information to me this would be most sincerely appreciated 13 this is also the only publication of which i am aware that gives a middle initial for professor silva d a middle name is not recorded even with the library of congress inquiring minds c posted in uncategorized 2 comments mondays with moisés learning greek and translating greek posted on september 25 2017 by fr esteban vázquez as we all know there simply aren t enough months weeks or days to praise the excellencies of our infallible hero because of this and in spite of my desire to not overwhelm you my gentle snowflakes with feature posts i have felt compelled on this week leading up to bible translation day international translation day to share with one and all the following selections from moisés silva s contribution to the 2003 festschrift for the late great biblical scholar and translator ronald f youngblood d 2014 while i trust that the combined selections below convey the main thrust of silva s argument in this spellbinding essay please be advised that in the full version they frame multiple and fascinating examples that are worth your time and consideration please note the bibliographic information at the end of the post and make a point of reading this essay and this remarkable festschrift in its entirety college and seminary courses in the biblical languages consist primarily of guiding the student in translating word for word if the resulting rendering violates english syntax or makes no sense at all changes may be introduced but as a rule these translations are stilted sometimes barely intelligible to a layperson and rarely express the thought of the original in the most natural way that the rich resources of the english language make available most of us have thus been led to believe that if we manage to represent the greek and hebrew words in as close a one to one correspondence as possible we have succeeded in the task of translation but who would consider successful a spanish to english translation that had such renderings as i have cold in the feet instead of my feet are cold or he has ten years instead of he is ten years old even though these sentences conform to english syntax and their meaning can be figured out all successful translations of literature for example contemporary german novels sound natural as though they had originally been written in english while also preserving a feel for the original cultural setting therefore they are more easily read and understood than if they reflected the foreign syntax and word usage incidentally since the message communicates more clearly one can argue that they are more accurate than literal renderings would be because most new testament books as well as old testament hebrew narrative are characterized by a fairly straightforward syntax many of whose features can be paralleled in english syntax we are lulled into thinking that literal renderings of the greek text work but just because a certain greek syntactical pattern can be reproduced in english that hardly means it should as though such reproduction were the best or most faithful representation of the original the first time i taught extrabiblical hellenistic greek i had a small group of advanced college students who had shown strong competence in two years of new testament greek one of them was an unusually gifted student who nevertheless felt quite frustrated and discouraged because of the difficulties she was experiencing how was it possible that she could do so well understanding and translating the greek of the new testament and yet feel so lost working with epictetus almost all students i ve taught since then have had a comparable reaction even though the language of epictetus is in fact relatively simple how does one explain this phenomenon part of the answer is that biblical students are dependent to a much greater degree than they realize on their familiarity with the contents of the new testament there is no shame in this the main reason we understand time magazine well is that we are very familiar with the historical context in which american english is spoken the further removed we are from the context of a document e g in time say shakespeare or in subject matter legal documents the greater our difficulties in making sense of it a student s basic familiarity with the biblical subject matter and form of expression over against an unfamiliarity with the concerns and phraseology of hellenistic philosophers has much to do with the frustrations he or she will experience moving from one to the other but that explanation does not get to the heart of the linguistic problem as already suggested an exclusive or nearly exclusive acquaintance with the simple narrative of the gospels or with the unassuming discourse of the pauline letters combined with the instinctive tendency confirmed and encouraged by the instructor to represent the text by means of one to one english correspondences whenever possible creates a conception of the workings of the greek language that is derived from an alien structure on the other hand intensive training translating clauses and sentences that cannot be rendered word for word and thus require restructuring would give students an entrée into the genius i e the authentic character of the foreign tongue it would also help them see much more clearly that such restructuring could be the preferable method of rendering even when it may not appear necessary the point here is that a nonliteral 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