The Bible, which contains the Old Testament and the New Testament, is called the cornerstone of western culture. The Psalms is a book included in the Old Testament and occupies an important position in the Bible. The importance of the Bible also prompts the development of numerous translation theories. Among many scholars who devote themselves to Bible translation survey, an American linguist, ...

While writing a book on paraphilias, the author made a thorough search of early references to paraphilias in literature, especially the Bible. Surprisingly just one published paper was available in the literature having any discussion on the references of paraphilia in the Bible, and that too was in French. [Bieder J. The polymorphous sexual deviant: a reading of Freud and the Bible. Ann Med Ps...

Multilingual OCR has emerged as an important information technology, thanks to the increasing need for cross-language information access. While many research groups and companies have developed OCR algorithms for various languages, it is diicult to compare the performance of these OCR algorithms across languages. This diiculty arises because most evaluation methodologies rely on the use of a do...

Violent people often claim that God sanctions their actions. In two studies, participants read a violent passage said to come from either the Bible or an ancient scroll. For half the participants, the passage said that God sanctioned the violence. Next, participants competed with an ostensible partner on a task in which the winner could blast the loser with loud noise through headphones (the ag...

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...

Translating the Bible so that target audiences can easily understand the meaning of the text has dominated the theory and practice of Bible translation since the 1960s. Source oriented translations that are typically associated with word-for-word translations received little theoretical reflection. However, developments in Translation Studies have made it clear that the latter type of translati...

Multilingual OCR has emerged as an important information technology, thanks to the increasing need for crosslanguage information access. While many research groups and companies have developed OCR algorithms for various languages, it is di cult to compare the performance of these OCR algorithms across languages. This di culty arises because most evaluation methodologies rely on the use of a doc...

Prior to 1970, modern biblical scholars gave little attention to the role of the natural world in the literature of the Bible and in the religion culture of ancient Israel. Too often it was assumed that the religion of Israel was a religion of history, and that the Bible focused exclusively on the relationship between God and humans. The natural world was viewed merely as the stage on which the...

The Bible is an epic account of humanity with a profound cultural influence and significance. For thousands of years, reading and interpreting the Bible has been a topic of great interest in religious, academic, and general public circles alike. However, the Bible as a physical document is unwieldy: with 40 authors 66 chapters, and over 700,000 words, it is difficult — even for experts — to tra...

This article studies the development of twentieth century translation theory. This was a period during which significant theoretical contributions were made in both secular and Bible translation circles. These contributions have had a profound impact on the practice of translation throughout the twentieth century and since. The individuals who contributed to the present state of translation the...