Surprisingly, but not without reason, Eugene Albert Nida (1914-2011) came to be revered as “the world’s most influential Bible translator”5 despite never publishing his own translations.6 His optimistic theory maintains that the meaning of a text can be captured through “basic kernels,” or kernel sentences, and thus be transferred from one language to another without losing virtually anything. The Director of Translation Services of the United Bible Societies has likened this to a “revolution.” Nida developed a simple but highly effective explanatory model which gained worldwide acceptance among the most prominent Bible translators.7 Similar verdicts were passed in the secular domain: the Linguistic Society of America considers Nida to be “one of the most effective spokespersons for the field of linguistics that the world has ever known.”8 His book Toward a Science of Translating (1964t) is regarded as the beginning of translation science/studies in its narrower sense9 – as the “bible” not only for Bible translation, but also for translation in general.10