[B-Greek] Essays on translation (was: "my wooden interlinear translations")
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Mon Nov 7 16:19:56 EST 2005
As I recall, Everett Fox refers extensively to Buber and Rosenzweig in
his introduction to his own translation of the Pentateuch (The
Schocken Bible, vol. 1, The Five Books of Moses). Refreshingly retro
in an era of rampant dynamic vulgarization-reduction, pardon me, I
mean dynamic equivalence. ;-) Fox and Buber-Rosenzweig seem to pose
the question: if in translation something always must be lost, why
should the one thing always preserved be the current popular idiom of
the receptor language?
James Ernest
jernest at BakerAcademic.com
On 11/7/05, Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at ioa.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> > --
> > D. Jim West
> >
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> Carl W. Conrad
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