[B-Greek] my wooden interlinear translations

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Mon Nov 7 09:53:15 EST 2005


Since we are discussing essay about translation- the best is of course 
Martin Luther's - which was rightly mentioned on this very list back in 
1999-

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/1999-October/007639.html

Jim


Eric Weiss wrote:
> The essay is correctly entitled: "Are Translators Traitors? Some Personal Reflections" and it can be read here:
>  
> http://www.zondervan.com/media/pdfs/0310246857.pdf
> 
> Eric Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com> wrote: And then you have Moises Silva's essay in THE CHALLENGE OF 
> BIBLE TRANSLATION where he describes the agony he went through trying to convey in 
> English something straightforwardly written in his native Spanish. Why the agony? Because he 
> was aware of all the nuances in the Spanish original that were lost with every English phrase 
> he attempted. "The Translator as Traitor?" I believe he entitled his essay.
> 
-- 
D. Jim West

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