CINEMATIC BIBLICAL TRANSLATION

CBT is a new translation method that brings the Bible to film without additions or omissions. It preserves the meaning, literary structure, characterization, and narrative logic of the biblical text so that more people than ever can experience it on the big screen without worrying about accuracy.

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    Dr. C. John Collins

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    Dr. Jillian Ross

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    Dr. Andrew Judd

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Articles
Recitation: The Easily Mistaken Method
Recitation: The Easily Mistaken Method

What is the most faithful way to put the Bible on screen? Some people have proposed the answer. Read the biblical text exactly as written and place images alongside it. But there's an issue…

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“East of Eden” - Theme Study
“East of Eden” - Theme Study

What comes to mind when you hear the Imperial March play in the Star Wars universe? “Dun dun dun, dun da dun, dun da dun.” What if I told you the Bible has its own version of Frodo’s sword or Darth Vader’s song?

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Adaptation: The Method that Demands Change
Adaptation: The Method that Demands Change

Adaptation demands change, while audiences often search for faithfulness. According to scholars, adaptations by definition are never meant to be fully faithful to the original material.

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Is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Based on the Bible?
Is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Based on the Bible?

You may have watched Odysseus wrestle with the consequences of violating Zeus’s sacred law of hospitality and may have wondered: “Wait, why does this sound so familiar?”

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What Do Wild Animal Attacks Tell Us About  Jesus?
What Do Wild Animal Attacks Tell Us About  Jesus?

Why does the Book of Mark include this detail? The answer reveals one of the Bible's most cinematic storytelling techniques, and it teaches us how mere adaptations of the biblical stories often fall short. 

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