O PRINCÍPIO DE EQUIVALÊNCIA EM DUAS TRADUÇÕES DA BÍBLIA PARA O PORTUGUÊS

Abstract

This paper aims to compare two translations of the Bible into Portuguese of Brazil – The Revista e Atualizada (RA) edition and the Nova Tradução na Linguagem de Hoje (NTLH) - under the perspective of two translation principles postulated by Nida: formal equivalence principle and dynamic equivalence principle. After comparing the first six chapters of the Gospel of John, it was possible to identify differences between the two translations involving different choices of words, differences in grammatical classes and tenses, changes in the period terms, additions and formal adjusts. Some features used in the translation of the NTLH are identified and analyzed in contrast to the RA text, suggesting that those features may be responsible for the production of a text whose simple and popular language is closer to the one adopted in Brazil and reaches a larger portion of the population.