Translating across Cultures and Languages Conference Series
Translating the Bible: preservation or modernisation?
Speaker: Professor Aaron D. Hornkohl (Cambridge)
The Bible is one of the earliest and most frequently translated books in history. Indeed, much in the way of modern translation theory and comes out of the context of Bible translation. But the Bible is not just any text. Because of its temporal, geographical, cultural, and conceptual remoteness as well as its perceived status as sacred scripture, its translation is not always straightforward, involving not just the typical criteria of accuracy, naturalness, and clarity, but acceptability, too. In this talk, Cambridge scholar Professor Aaron D. Hornkohl will discuss various aspects of both ancient and modern Bible translation, many relevant to translation in general and a few unique to the translation of scripture.
Part of a series supported by an ILCS Conference grant
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