A History of Bible Translation

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A History of Bible Translation. Edited by Philip A. Noss. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura; New York: American Bible Society, 2007. Pp. xix, 521. euro55 /$75; paperback $60.

More than just a "history," this edited volume is a veritable library of material reflecting on the background, theories, methods, and experiences of Bible translators from the Septuagint to the present. The book, the first in a series of publications by the Eugene A. Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship, New York, and well summarized by Dieudonné Bessong and Michel Kenmogne in their chapter on contemporary Africa, encompasses a "history, though not chronological . . . [and] critical analyses hinging …