RT Book
T1 The art of Bible translation
A1 Alter, Robert 1935-
LA English
PP Princeton Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669022706
AB An award-winning biblical translator reflects on the art of capturing the literary power of the Bible in EnglishIn 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
CN BS449
SN 978-0-691-18925-3
K1 Hebrew language
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
K1 BIBLES / Other Translations / General
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
K1 RELIGION / Judaism / General
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
K1 Poetry
K1 Narrative
K1 Prose
K1 Bible translations
K1 Verb
K1 Biblical poetry
K1 Diction
K1 Psalms
K1 King James Version
K1 Word play
K1 Bible
K1 Biblical Hebrew
K1 Hebrew Bible
K1 Pun
K1 Rashi
K1 Bible translations into English
K1 Modern English Version
K1 Amnon
K1 Modern English
K1 Illustration
K1 Parataxis
K1 Writer
K1 Joab
K1 Alliteration
K1 Ehud
K1 Font Bureau
K1 Jephthah
K1 Septuagint
K1 The Other Hand
K1 Ambiguity
DO 10.1515/9780691189253