UBS Helps for Translators

[A.D. Riddle]

I use some of these in another platform, but they are missing one of the volumes. Even though these might be a little out-of-date, they still are quite useful.

https://thebibletranslator.org/product-category/technical-helps/

Hope, Edward R.
    2005    All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible. Helps for Translators. New York: United Bible Societies.

 

Koops, Robert.
    2012    Each According to Its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible. Helps for Translators. New York: United Bible Societies.

 

Pritz, Ray.
    2009    The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible. Helps for Translators. New York: United Bible Societies.

 

Zogbo, Lynell, and Ernst R. Wendland.
    2020    Hebrew Poetry in the Bible: A Guide for Understanding and for Translating. 2nd ed. Helps for Translators. Miami: United Bible Societies.

 

I personally am most interested in the volume by Ray Pritz, because for flora and fauna, there are several more-recent works that cover those topics. For example, see here

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0269.xml

and here

https://bibleresearchtoday.com/2019/06/30/field-guides-to-fauna-and-flora-in-the-bible/

 

A.D.

 

 

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

Thanks! I'll show these to our teams.