A Critical Examination of the Translation Philosophy of the Asante-Twi Bible

Bible translation activities have been documented since the return of Jewish people from Babylonian captivity in period 5th century BCE (Before Common Era). In Ghana, earliest portions Scripture was Ga 1805. into mother tongues overtly or covertly employs one more philosophies known translating Bible. This article examined philosophy that underpinned Asante-Twi Bible, a mother-tongue is widely used by Akan-speaking Ghana. Two texts (Acts 1:12 and Hebrews 12:1) were exegetically through lens tongue biblical hermeneutics. The researcher discovered two main theories formal dynamic equivalences employed where appropriate translation. However, there are lot passages (such as systems measurements dates) call for using to make message New Testament understandable unambiguous. also argues need commentaries Bibles. Keywords: translation, skopos theory, functional equivalence,