Loyalty and liberation: skopos theory's ethic in dialogue with contextual Bible study's commitments

This paper explores how Christiane Nord's ethic of translator loyalty could be invigorated in African Bible translation by engaging the social commitments of Contextual Bible Study, a practice of Bible reading and action developed in South Africa. After describing Nord's concept of loyalty...

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Main Author: Esala, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. [2016]
In: Old Testament essays
Year: 2016, Volume: N.S.29, Issue: 3, Pages: 434-454
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
Further subjects:B Narrative theory
B Alttestamentliche Ethik
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Summary:This paper explores how Christiane Nord's ethic of translator loyalty could be invigorated in African Bible translation by engaging the social commitments of Contextual Bible Study, a practice of Bible reading and action developed in South Africa. After describing Nord's concept of loyalty and its prevalence in African Bible translation, the paper notes the challenge of practicing loyalty amidst complex power dynamics in the post-colonial context of Ghana. The paper then imagines how Christiane Nord's four poles of translator loyalty could be reconfigured if they included the social commitments and interpretative practices of Contextual Bible Study. The goal is to situate translators so they can produce a translation that offers details from critical scholarship and from actual Contextual Bible Study experiences which marginalised groups in their audience may find liberating. An experimental English translation of Job 3 is included for reference.
ISSN:1010-9919
Contains:Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2016/v29n3a5