Jewish Bible Translations
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Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress

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Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress

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About This Book

Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible translation. Examining a wide range of translations over twenty-four centuries, Leonard Greenspoon delves into the historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts of versions in eleven languages: Arabic, Aramaic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. He profiles many Jewish translators, among them Buber, Hirsch, Kaplan, Leeser, Luzzatto, Mendelssohn, Orlinsky, and Saadiah Gaon, framing their aspirations within the Jewish and larger milieus in which they worked. Greenspoon differentiates their principles, styles, and techniques—for example, their choice to emphasize either literal reflections of the Hebrew or distinctive elements of the vernacular language—and their underlying rationales. As he highlights distinctive features of Jewish Bible translations, he offers new insights regarding their shared characteristics and their limits. Additionally, Greenspoon shows how profoundly Jewish translators and interpreters influenced the style and diction of the King James Bible. Accessible and authoritative for all from beginners to scholars, Jewish Bible Translations enables readers to make their own informed evaluations of individual translations and to holistically assess Bible translation within Judaism.

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Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Year
2020
ISBN
9780827618558
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Jewish Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Septuagint
  8. 2. The Targums
  9. 3. Bible Translation into Arabic
  10. 4. Bible Translation into Yiddish and German
  11. 5. Translations into Other Selected Languages
  12. 6. English-Language Versions
  13. 7. Non-Jewish Translations with Jewish Features
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Subject Index
  18. Index of Bible Passages ï»żand Other Ancient and Religious Texts
  19. About Leonard Greenspoon