Hall Harris's blog
What does Yoda have to do with Bible translation?
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 9th, 2008
Some of you may be wondering about the tagline for this blog: "Understand Yoda perfectly well you can, even if natural English speak he does not." There's a story behind this, as you might expect, but it also raises some interesting and even highly debated issues regarding modern translations of the Bible. The background for the tagline was a panel discussion that took place at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Toronto in November 2002.
The NET Bible off and running
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 8th, 2008
After returning from Philadelphia it was not long until a formal proposal was ready for the new translation (which at this time had the working title The Internet Study Bible – the name NET Bible came along a number of months later), with the NT books of 1, 2, 3 John (with the full set of notes) done on my Mac PowerBook 165c as a proof of concept. This proposal was accepted by the sponsor in January 1996 and we were off and running.
Early origins of the NET Bible
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 8th, 2008
I was in Philly in November 1995 for the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, a professional society I have belonged to for just about my entire teaching career. It was cold and windy but without rain or snow, and I was just on my way from the convention center across the street to grab a cheesesteak sandwich for lunch at the 12th Street Deli. I was crossing the street in one direction and met Hampton and his friend crossing the street toward me. In the middle of the
My technological journey
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 5th, 2008
Saying that I have been a faculty member at a leading evangelical seminary for the past 30 years is to give only a very small part of the picture about who I am. I have been involved with computing and electronics since my high school days (not quite far enough back to remember ENIAC, but I did do some stacked job processing on an IBM System/360 mainframe at my dad’s insurance agency when I was in high school).
For thirty years W. Hall Harris III has taught on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary in the New Testament Studies Department. Since 1995 he has served as Project Director and Managing Editor for the NET Bible at bible.org passionately steering this revolutionary Bible from inception to global impact. Dr. Harris has traveled extensively in Western Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. And as an ordained minister he has served over the years as pastor of single adults, elder, and adult Sunday school teacher.
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