on translation

[Wayne Leman]

Fortunately, even though many missionaries might think otherwise, the Bible 
is not a Western book (it's distinctly non-Western, for the most part, 
including in its literary forms, styles of conversation and rhetoric, etc.). 
And it's got a lot in it that address ills of Western societies if people 
would take its teachings seriously.

The problem is not with the Bible, per se, but all the cultural baggage that 
many missionaries add on to it. It's a good book to translate. There are a 
number of good books to translate.

Wayne Leman