Mon premier blog

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

Download eBook

Download pdf books free online The Art of Bible Translation in English iBook DJVU FB2

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: Kindle downloading of books Panzerfaust vs Sherman: European Theater 1944-45 9781472832313 by Steven J. Zaloga, Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate CHM PDB here, Google libros pdf descargador en línea MOROLOCO 9788491293125 site, E descargas de libros gratis GOMA EVA ESPECIAL FOFUCHAS 07 DJVU PDF ePub download link, Descargando audiolibros gratis mp3 EL ESPIA INGLES de DANIEL SILVA (Spanish Edition) here,