Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,1 (2020) 87-104
Keywords:
Alter, Robert.
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Alter, Robert Criticism and interpretation
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Bible Translating
Abstract:
In this article, I present a somewhat extended review of The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter (2019) from the specific perspective of a former Bible translator and consultant in Africa (Zambia). This is a longer study since I wanted to include many of the perceptive and instructive thoughts of the author with respect to the artistry of the Biblical Hebrew text on the one hand, and his particular approach to translating that same text on the other, as exemplified in his recent celebrated publication, The Hebrew Bible (2018). In the course of this overview, I occasionally offer an indirect critique of Alter’s literal “foreignising” approach by presenting an alternative way of looking at the problem in the original text and/or how to render it meaningfully in English.
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