[B-Greek] Essays on translation (was: "my wooden interlinear translations")

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Mon Nov 7 13:38:59 EST 2005


Although I've never read it (I'd like to), I've heard that one of the  
best essays on Biblical translation was that of Martin Buber and  
Franz Rosenzweig, _DieSchrift und ihre Verdeutschung_ -- this was an  
introduction to their translation of the Tanach into German. There's  
an OP English version of this entitled _Scripture and Translation_.

On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Jim West wrote:

> 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.
>>
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