約翰·伯特倫·菲利普斯
外觀
約翰·伯特倫·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歲) |
教育程度 | 文學碩士 |
母校 |
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職業 | 翻譯家、聖經翻譯者 |
約翰·伯特倫·菲利普斯(John Bertram Phillips,1906年9月16日—1982年7月21日),英格蘭聖公會牧師,聖經翻譯者、作家。他被世人所知的是他翻譯的《菲利普斯現代英語新約》。
生平
[編輯]菲利普斯出生於薩里郡巴恩斯(現屬泰晤士河畔列治文區),他就讀於劍橋大學伊曼紐爾學院,並獲得榮譽學士學位。在經過培訓後,他在1930年成為英格蘭教會的牧師。[1]
菲利普斯在倫敦The Good Shepherd教堂傳教。他發現到欽定版聖經難以被年輕人們理解。時逢二戰期間倫敦大轟炸,在防空洞避難的菲利普斯開始將《新約》使用現代英語再次翻譯,首先是《歌羅西書》。而菲利普斯所翻譯的版本確實可以使年輕人們更好理解,這鼓勵他繼續翻譯《新約》的其他部分。[2]
戰後菲利普斯的部分翻譯作品開始出版,首先是1947年《Letters to Young Churches》,當時得到了作家C·S·路易斯的支持。[2]此後在1952年出版《福音書》,1955年出版《使徒行傳》並重新命題為《The Young Church in Action》,1957年出版《啟示錄》。最終在1958年出版了合集《現代英語新約》,這部新約在1961年編修並再版,1972年再版,讓菲利普斯因此聞名。
除了《新約》外,菲利普斯也翻譯了部分《舊約》,1963年他出版了《以賽亞書》1-39、《何西阿書》、《阿摩司書》和《彌迦書》,取名為《Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Micah: A Modern Translation from the Hebrew》,但他沒有繼續翻譯舊約。
作品
[編輯]- 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.
參考資料
[編輯]- ^ 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.