Four Bible translation types and some criteria to distinguish
them  Floor, Sebastian J  The purpose of this paper is to
contribute to the discussion on the classification of Bible
translation types. This paper proposes four types instead of the
traditional two: literal and idiomatic or dynamic equivalent.
The four types are Type 1) close (or literal) resemblance, Type
2) open resemblance, Type 3) close (or limited) interpretative,
and Type 4) open interpretative. There are several continua of
criteria: the degree of resemblance to the original semantic
content, the degree of explicitness, and the type of adjustments
needed to unpack the meaning. Eight criteria of adjustments are
proposed to distinguish these four types: 1) order of clauses
and phrases, 2) sentence length, 3) reference disambiguation and
tracking, 4) concordance of lexical items, 5) key terms and
unknown terms, 6) figurative usage and idioms, 7) transition
marking, and 8) information structure.  Content Language:
Functional equivalence grammat