Description:In this Amsterdam-based volume, eight experts on Bible translations present essays concerning the practices of translating the Bible for the present and the future, through Christian and Jewish approaches, in Western Europe and North America as well as in the former Eastern Bloc and in Africa. Each paper is followed by a response. Contributors include S. Noorda, J. Rogerson, S. Crisp, R.Carroll, M. Korsak, E. Fox, J. Punt, L. Sanneh, and other noted academics who write responses to the essays.