约翰·伯特伦·菲利普斯
外观
约翰·伯特伦·菲利普斯 | |
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出生 | 1906年9月16日 |
逝世 | 1982年7月21日 (75岁) |
教育程度 | 文学硕士 |
母校 |
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职业 | 翻译家、圣经翻译者 |
约翰·伯特伦·菲利普斯(John Bertram Phillips,1906年9月16日—1982年7月21日),英格兰圣公会牧师,圣经翻译者、作家。他被世人所知的是他翻译的《菲利普斯现代英语新约》。
生平
[编辑]菲利普斯出生于萨里郡巴恩斯(现属泰晤士河畔列治文区),他就读于剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院,并获得荣誉学士学位。在经过培训后,他在1930年成为英格兰教会的牧师。[1]
菲利普斯在伦敦The Good Shepherd教堂传教。他发现到钦定版圣经难以被年轻人们理解。时逢二战期间伦敦大轰炸,在防空洞避难的菲利普斯开始将《新约》使用现代英语再次翻译,首先是《歌罗西书》。而菲利普斯所翻译的版本确实可以使年轻人们更好理解,这鼓励他继续翻译《新约》的其他部分。[2]
战后菲利普斯的部分翻译作品开始出版,首先是1947年《Letters to Young Churches》,当时得到了作家C·S·路易斯的支持。[2]此后在1952年出版《福音书》,1955年出版《使徒行传》并重新命题为《The Young Church in Action》,1957年出版《启示录》。最终在1958年出版了合集《现代英语新约》,这部新约在1961年编修并再版,1972年再版,让菲利普斯因此闻名。
除了《新约》外,菲利普斯也翻译了部分《旧约》,1963年他出版了《以赛亚书》1-39、《何西阿书》、《阿摩司书》和《弥迦书》,取名为《Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Micah: A Modern Translation from the Hebrew》,但他没有继续翻译旧约。
作品
[编辑]- Quiet Times. A Book for Private Prayer 1938
- Reality in Religion 1938
- A Translation of the New Testament Epistles 1947
- Making Men Whole 1952 (revised 1955)
- The Gospels in Modern English 1952
- Your God is Too Small 1953
- Plain Christianity: and Other Broadcast Talks 1954
- Appointment with God: Some Thoughts on Holy Communion 1954
- The Young Church in Action 1955
- When God was Man 1955
- The Church Under the Cross 1956
- New Testament Christianity 1956
- Letters to Young Churches 1957
- The Inside Story: In Modern English as told in Luke, John, Acts and Romans 1957
- St. Luke's Life of Christ 1957
- God With Us. A Message for Christmas. 1957
- Is God at Home? 1957
- The Book of Revelation 1957
- The New Testament in Modern English 1958
- Backwards to Christmas [First published in "The life of faith".] 1958
- God our Contemporary 1960
- New Testament Readings for Schools 1960
- The Christian Year: The Prayer Book Collects 1961
- Four Prophets Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Micah; a modern translation from the Hebrew, 1963
- Good News: Thoughts on God and Man. 1963
- The Ring of Truth: A translator's testimony 1967
- Jesus Christ and Him Crucified; A Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2 1973
- Through the year with J.B. Phillips : devotional readings for every day 1974 (Renamed 365 meditations by J.B. Phillips for this day in 1975)
- Peter's Portrait of Jesus: A Commentary on the Gospel of Mark and the Letters of Peter 1976
- The Newborn Christian: 114 Readings from J. B. Phillips 1978
- A Man Called Jesus: the Gospel Story in 26 Short Plays 1978
- The Living Gospels of Jesus Christ 1981
- The Price of Success autobiography, 1984
- "The Problems of Making a Contemporary Translation", The Churchman (June 1961), 88–95; reprinted The Bible Translator, 16:1 (1965), 25–32.
参考资料
[编辑]- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 757.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 Church Times: "J. B. Phillips: a pioneer in modern Bible translation", 30 July 1982, p 4. [25 February 2021].
- ^ FreeBMD Entry Info. www.freebmd.org.uk.