[B-Greek] Translation Considerations checklist: Suggestions?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Tue May 4 13:42:35 EDT 2010


What ?!! No Hebrew ?  Close that seminary.
 george
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From: Mark Hoffman <markgvh at gmail.com>
To: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 9:04:54 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Translation Considerations checklist: Suggestions?

@Carl
I'm not sure if I'm missing a response from another "Mark" or if you were
just paraphrasing something you thought I said, but I am very much of the
opinion that the books of the NT needed to be regarded, at least on one
level, as artistic works. There is an essay by Alain Gignac in *Translating
the NT* entitled, "A Translation that Induces a Reading Experience:
Narrativity, Intratextuality, Rhetorical Performance and Galatians 1-2"
where he describes a translation project where he work with a non-biblical
sort of person who was a skilled literary sort. They had to work together to
compose the translation, and it is a fascinating description of how the text
and 'art' can come together in translation.

And, yes, I do worry that we teach just enough Greek to make students
"dangerous" in thinking they know too much. Following the Greek requirement
(basically a year's worth), students are required to take a Gospels class
the next semester where one section each week is devoted to translating
texts. In the next school year, they need to take an Epistles class where
they have another week section on translation. Hebrew is not required, so in
the OT classes, they are encouraged to work with the LXX.

Still, despite the challenge, I am committed to teaching Greek, because it
does slow them down when they read the text. What I mean is that often the
texts become so familiar that they no longer 'hear' the text at all. Working
through the Greek slows us down so that we read it carefully and hopefully
come to a better appreciation of its richness.
-- 
Mark V Hoffman
www.CrossMarks.com
bibleandtech.blogspot.com | scrollandscreen.com
www.gettysburgseminary.org/mhoffman
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