Original Research www.koersjournal.org.za AUTHOR: ‘Monumentum aere perennius’ – Victor E. d’Assonville AFFILIATION: Discussions and Decisions by the Synod University of the Free State (UFS) 1 Faculty of Theology and Religion of Dort on the Translation of the Bible Department of Historical and Constructive Theology. RTS Heidelberg CORRESPONDENCE TO: ABSTRACT
[email protected] The Synod of Dordrecht 1618/19 was not only the most ecumenical synod of reformed churches DATES: in history, but is also famous for reaching closure with the formulation of the Canons of Dort, Published: 12 Dec 2019 on the highly controversial discussions of election, grace, predestination, free will and other related theological themes that disturbed the Netherlands during the first two decades of the 17th HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: d’Assonville, V.E., 2019. ‘Monumentum century. Unfortunately, in the wake of this, other crucial matters that also were dealt with at the aere perennius’ – Discussions and Synod tend to be obscure. The critical issue of Bible translation is one such example. Although Decisions by the Synod of Dort on this theme appears to be in the shadow of the contentious debates on election etc., till today the Translation of the Bible. KOERS the importance of the decisions of the Synod on the principles of Bible translation, which gave — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, rise to the well-known Dutch “Statenvertaling” (State Translation), remain unassailed. These 84(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10. include principles such as translating from the original languages, staying as close as possible 19108/KOERS.84.1.2475 to the original source text, remaining as faithful as possible to the typical Hebrew and Greek COPYRIGHT: idiom, as well as the use of an unadulterated, understandable language as target language © 2019.