Tradução para Tradutores
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The Bible — Translation for Translators (TFT) is a public-domain New Testament produced for use by Bible translators. Its purpose is unusual: it makes explicit in English the meaning that the Greek leaves implicit, so that translators working into other languages can see clearly what has to be communicated.
History and Purpose
The TFT was prepared by Ellis W. Deibler Jr, a translation consultant with many years' experience in the field, chiefly in Papua New Guinea. He observed a recurring difficulty: translators working from a standard English Bible would reproduce its wording faithfully and still fail to convey the meaning, because English preserves ambiguities and implicit information that the target language cannot carry.
His answer was a New Testament that resolves those ambiguities on the page. It was released into the public domain so that any translation project could use it without cost or permission.
Method
The TFT makes explicit what the original assumed. Where Greek uses a genitive that could bear several senses, the TFT states the sense intended. Where a figure of speech would be opaque, it gives both the figure and its meaning. Where a rhetorical question expects a particular answer, that answer is supplied. Alternative interpretations of genuinely disputed passages are shown side by side.
The result is deliberately not a reading Bible. It is longer and more explicit than any ordinary translation, and its explanatory material is marked so that a translator can see what belongs to the text and what has been added.
Use and Importance
The TFT is used as a working tool by translation teams, consultants and students of exegesis. For anyone who wants to see the interpretive decisions that lie beneath a smooth English rendering, it is unusually revealing: it shows the choices a translator must make and normally makes silently.
Contemporary Relevance
With Bible translation active in hundreds of languages, resources of this kind remain in demand, and the TFT's public-domain status means it can be copied, adapted and distributed freely wherever it is needed. For the general reader it also serves as a form of concise commentary, laying out the range of meaning a passage can bear.