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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.
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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