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Studies in the Psalms: Literary-Structural Analysis with Application to Translation (Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics)

Studies in the Psalms: Literary-Structural Analysis with Application to Translation (Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics)

Author: Ernst R Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556714016

Price: USD 44.95

Title Description

Understanding Biblical Hebrew poetry is a formidable task and the complexity rises exponentially when attempting translation. This...

Prophetic Rhetoric: Case Studies in Text Analysis and Translation, Second Edition

Prophetic Rhetoric: Case Studies in Text Analysis and Translation, Second Edition

Author: Ernst R. Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713453

Price: USD 59.95

Title Description

Prophetic Rhetoric Case Studies in Text Analysis and Translation Second Edition Ernst R. Wendland SIL International® Publications...

Orality and the Scriptures: Composition, Translation, and Transmission

Orality and the Scriptures: Composition, Translation, and Transmission

Author: Ernst R. Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712982

Price: USD 42.95

Title Description

What does "orality" (oral forms of discourse) have to do with the "Scriptures," a corpus of sacred written documents? The aim of t...

Lovely, Lively Lyrics: Selected Studies in Biblical Hebrew Verse

Lovely, Lively Lyrics: Selected Studies in Biblical Hebrew Verse

Author: Ernst R. Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713279

Text Language: English Price: USD 44.95

Title Description

This book applies a literary functional equivalence (LiFE) approach in a practical, procedure-documented manner to the text analys...

LiFE-Style Translating: A Workbook for Bible Translators, Second Edition

LiFE-Style Translating: A Workbook for Bible Translators, Second Edition

Author: Ernst R. Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712432

Price: USD 49.95

Title Description

This workbook is intended to introduce translators, exegetes, Bible students, and communicators of the Scriptures to some of the m...

Analyzing the Psalms: With Exercises for Bible Students and Translators

Analyzing the Psalms: With Exercises for Bible Students and Translators

Author: Ernst R. Wendland

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556711299

Price: USD 25.00

Title Description

Analyzing the Psalms: With Exercises for Bible Students and TranslatorsThe purpose of this textbook is to introduce Bible students...

Understanding Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms: Distribution and Function across Genres

Understanding Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms: Distribution and Function across Genres

Author: Robert E. Longacre

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712784

Price: USD 79.95

Title Description

This work is the first thorough study of tense, aspect, and modality (TAM) in light of the discourse functions of biblical Hebrew....

Sudanese Arabic-English - English-Sudanese Arabic: A Concise Dictionary (Sil International Publications in Linguistics) (Arabic, Sundanese and English Edition)

Sudanese Arabic-English - English-Sudanese Arabic: A Concise Dictionary (Sil International Publications in Linguistics) (Arabic, Sundanese and English Edition)

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712722

Price: USD 44.95

Title Description

This dictionary has been produced specifically as a resource for foreign learners of Sudanese Arabic. The language is spoken in Kh...

A Discourse Analysis of First Corinthians (Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 120)

A Discourse Analysis of First Corinthians (Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 120)

Author: Ralph Bruce Terry

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9780883127070

Price: USD 26.95

Title Description

This book utilizes principles of discourse analysis, cultural anthropology, and biblical studies to analyze First Corinthians. It ...

Acclimated to Africa: Cultural Competence for Westerners (Publications in Ethnography)

Acclimated to Africa: Cultural Competence for Westerners (Publications in Ethnography)

Author: Debbi Digennaro

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713866

Price: USD 34.95

Title Description

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultur...

African Friends and Money Matters, Second Edition: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography)

African Friends and Money Matters, Second Edition: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography)

Author: David E. Maranz

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712777

Title Description

African Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. African...

Sudanese Colloquial Arabic for Beginners

Sudanese Colloquial Arabic for Beginners

Author: Andrew M Persson

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713781

Price: USD 39.95

Title Description

This book was designed to enable someone with no previous knowledge of Arabic to learn to speak Sudanese Colloquial Arabic, also k...

Juba Arabic for Beginners

Juba Arabic for Beginners

Author: Richard L. Watson

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713736

Title Description

Juba Arabic is an Arabic creole closely related to Kinubi. It began developing in the Equatoria Region of what is now South Sudan ...

Holistic Discourse Analysis, Second Edition

Holistic Discourse Analysis, Second Edition

Author: Robert E. Longacre

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556713293

Price: USD 48.95

Title Description

The central idea of this volume is the insistence that the structure of a part of a text must be explained in light of the structu...

Bible Translation Basics: Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way

Bible Translation Basics: Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way

Author: Harriet Hill

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556712692

Price: USD 29.00

Title Description

Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have ...

Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek

Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek

Author: Stephen H. Levinsohn

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556710933

Price: USD 33.50

Title Description

Dr. Levinsohn, with expertise in both New Testament Greek and discourse analysis, wrote this coursebook for use in classroom lectu...

Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics

Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics

Author: Robert D. Bergen

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556710070

Price: USD 42.00

Title Description

Twenty-two papers selected from a 1993 Seminar in Dallas, attended by a combination of professional Bible translators, biblical sc...

Relevance Theory: Guide to Successful Communication in Translation

Relevance Theory: Guide to Successful Communication in Translation

Author: Ernst-August Gutt

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9780883128206

Title Description

This book, Relevance Theory A Guide to Successful Communication in Translation, describes the nature of communication, the implica...

The Semantic Structure of Written Communication

The Semantic Structure of Written Communication

Author: John Beekman

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9781556714061

Price: USD 31.95

Title Description

This work provides a brief overview of the basic relationships of meaning and structure of a language. The overview is followed by...

Manual for Problem Solving in Bible Translation

Manual for Problem Solving in Bible Translation

Author: Mildred L Larson

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9780883129173

Price: USD 16.00

Title Description

This manual has been designed to give practice in solving the various problems which the Bible translator faces. Through drill and...

Translation Problems from A to Z, Revised edition

Translation Problems from A to Z, Revised edition

Author: Richard C. Blight

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 9780883122730

Price: USD 8.50

Title Description

Describes the many kinds of translation problems encountered by Bible translators.Table of ContentsAlphabetical Listing of Categor...

Discourse function of conjoiners in the Pastoral Epistles

Discourse function of conjoiners in the Pastoral Epistles

Author: Jakob K Heckert

Offered by: SIL International

ISBN: 978-1-55671-439-9

Price: USD 11.00

Title Description

Describes and compares six different conjoining particles in the Greek language.