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See Bassnett-McGuire, Translation Studies, pp. 57–58.

See also Sidney Greenbaum, “Three English Versions of Psalm 23, ” Journal of English Linguistics 17 (1984), pp.1–23, which, in a comparison of 13 features, finds the King James Version “clearly more faithful” to the Hebrew than the NEB (p. 19).

Geoffrey Hunt, About the New English Bible (Cambridge, UK: Oxford and Cambridge Univ. Presses, 1970), pp. 22, 52.

Harry M. Orlinsky, Notes on the New Translation of the Torah (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1969), pp. 39–40.

See Beekman, “Lexical Equivalence,” pp. 93–111.

Nida and William Wonderly “Linguistics and Christian Missions,” in Language Structure and Translation: Essays by Eugene A. Nida, ed. Anwar S. Dil (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1975), p. 193.

Eugene Nida, “Science of Translation,” Language 45:3 (September 1969), p.483 n.1. See also his “Linguistics and Ethnology in Translation Problems,” Word 1 (1945) pp. 194–208, reprinted in Language in Culture and Society, ed. Dell Hymes (New York: Harper and Row, 1964).

In addition, this same root is the bridge to the story of how Ishmael, son of Abraham’s maid-concubine Hagar, is soon afterward driven from his home for “mocking” (mes\ah\ek, 21:9). And it appears again when King Abimelech realizes that Rebecca is Isaac’s wife, not his sister, when he sees them “sporting” (mes\ah\ek, Genesis 26:8).

John Beekman, “Lexical Equivalence Involving Consideration of Form and Function,” in Notes on Translation, ed. Beekman (Santa Ana, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1965), p. 91.