ABSTRACT
The responsibility for creating a favorable atmosphere, or intellectual environment, for learning of course rests first of all with the teacher as “team leader,” but all class participants have a crucial role to play as well. If they are not prepared to contribute their best to what must be a joint enterprise, they will not be able to fully achieve their goals for the course, and the overall result will always be less than satisfactory. We would expect Bible translators and their trainers to be highly motivated people at the outset on account of the sacred object of their efforts, the Holy Scriptures. Thus, they ought to be willing to put forth extra effort to assist one another during any period of instruction, whether this is some formal course or a more informal time of learning on the job, as it were, when translating a certain biblical text. They do not compete on the job as individual translators; rather, they cooperate together as a communal-support team.
