The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
- The Art of Bible Translation
- Robert Alter
- Page: 152
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780691181493
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
Easy english books free download The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter 9780691181493 (English literature) DJVU PDB
Overview
An award-winning biblical translator reflects on the art of capturing the literary power of the Bible in English In this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation over the two decades he spent completing his own English version of the Hebrew Bible. Alter’s literary training gave him the advantage of seeing that a translation of the Bible can convey the text’s meaning only by trying to capture the powerful and subtle literary style of the biblical Hebrew, something the modern English versions don’t do justice to. The Bible’s style, Alter writes, “is not some sort of aesthetic embellishment of the ‘message’ of Scripture but the vital medium through which the biblical vision of God, human nature, history, politics, society, and moral value is conveyed.” And, as the translators of the King James Version knew, the authority of the Bible is inseparable from its literary authority. For these reasons, the Bible can be brought to life in English only by re-creating its literary virtuosity, and Alter discusses the principal aspects of style in the Hebrew Bible that any translator should try to reproduce: word choice, syntax, word play and sound play, rhythm, and dialogue. In the process, he provides an illuminating and accessible introduction to biblical style that also offers insights about the art of translation far beyond the Bible.
Other ebooks: Pdf file download free ebooks Burning Bright RTF PDF DJVU (English Edition) 9780399174575 by Nick Petrie site, Ebook for nokia x2-01 free download Attack on Titan Character Encyclopedia 9781632367099 by Hajime Isayama in English read book, Download ebooks free textbooks Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost site, Ebooks download ipad Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II in English here, Downloading audiobooks to an ipod The Book of Joan 9780062383280 here,