RT Article
T1 How Could Something So Right Be So Wrong?: OT References to the Left and Right Hand : Implications for Translation in Africa
JF The Bible translator
VO 64
IS 1
SP 36
OP 53
A1 Zogbo, Lynell
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1758049464
AB Cross-culturally the left hand is considered the lesser member of the right-left pair, giving rise to right- and left-based linguistic expressions favoring the right hand. In West Africa, left-handedness has positive and negative connotations: while often evoking virility and military prowess, it also connotes impurity, weakness, awkwardness, and sometimes stupidity. After exploring literal and figurative uses of the right and left in the OT, we ask, How does/can an African audience interpret the favoring of the right hand in biblical texts? What are possible readings of the left-handed Benjaminites in the Book of Judges? What are the implications for translation and translator helps?
K1 Judges
K1 Left-handedness
K1 West Africa
K1 Purity
K1 right and left in the Bible
DO 10.1177/0260093513481144