'Translation and Religion' addresses the methods & motives for translating the central texts of the world's religions & investigates a wide range of translation challenges specific to the unique nature of these writings This volume addresses the...
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'Translation and Religion' addresses the methods & motives for translating the central texts of the world's religions & investigates a wide range of translation challenges specific to the unique nature of these writings This volume addresses the methods and motives for translating the central texts of the world's religions and investigates a wide range of translation challenges specific to the unique nature of these writings. Translation theory underpins the methodology for the analysis of a variety of scriptures and brings important and sensitive issues of translation to the fore Translating holy texts / Lynne Long -- From gentlemen's outfitters to hyperbazaar : a personal approach to translating the sacred / Christopher Shackle -- Prophecy and tongues : St. Paul, interpreting, and building the house / K. Onur Toker -- What does not get translated in Buddhist studies and the impact on teaching / Kate Crosby -- Texts and contexts : perspectives on Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible / Leonard Greenspoon -- Making Sanskritic or making strange? : how should we translate classical Hindu texts? / W.J. Johnson -- Archaising versus modernising in English translations of the Orthodox liturgy : St. John Crysostomos in the 20th century / Adriana Şerban -- Holy communicative? : current approaches to Bible translation worldwide / Peter Kirk -- Settling Hoti's business : the impossible necessity of Biblical translation / David Jasper -- Guardian of the translated Dharma : Sakya Paṇḍita on the role of the Tibetan scholar / Jonathan Gold -- The translation of the Hebrew word 'ish in Genesis : a brief historical comparison / David Burke -- Translating the spoken words of the saints : oral literature and the Sufis of Aurangabad / Nile Green -- From scriptorium to Internet : the implication of audience on translation of the Psalms of the St. Albans psalter / Sue Niebrzydowski -- Cultural aspects in Qur'an translation / Hussein Abdul-Raof -- When East meets West via translation : the language of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Manuela Foiera.
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