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Bridge with the middle missing

Bridging the gap between

scholars

and

translators

Home: Scholaship

Why can't translators and other interpreters of the Bible make use of all the scholarship that already exists?

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Not available

It's locked behind paywalls or in formats that don't travel where they travel.

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Not accessible

It's confusing, with scholarly jargon and impenetrable prose, and is often only in English.

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Not useful

It doesn't ask the same questions Bible translators and interpreters are asking.

Our mission is to make worthy scholarship available, accessible 

and useful to interpreters of the Bible.

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1. Define the target audience

Meet our personas, characters developed from intended user research who represent real people in translation teams around the globe.

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2. Gather and package worthy scholarship

Our first project on the Psalms uses visualisations and layers to address multiple audience needs.

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3. Produce any new scholarship needed

One key need Oral Bible translators and Sign Language translators have asked for is emotional exegesis.

How?

There's so much information . . . The [translation] team is getting waterboarded with words. To do something like we want to do take time and care. There's art involved in translation."

Bill Bivin

SIL Global Consultant Pool Director 

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