Translation & -Nop/118: Holy Untranslatable? (Topics in Translation #28)

Translation & -Nop/118: Holy Untranslatable? (Topics in Translation #28)

Lynne Long (Editor)
$27.95
Publication Date: May 20th, 2005
Publisher:
Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN:
9781853598166
Pages:
216

Description

This book addresses the methods and motives for translating the central texts of the world's religions and investigates a range of translation challenges specific to the unique nature of these writings. Translation theory underpins the methodology for the analysis of various scriptures and examines important and sensitive issues of translation.

About the Author

Lynne Long teaches Translation Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published on Bible translation and on Translation History and continues to research in both these areas as well as in the field of Drama Translation. She is involved with American Bible Society projects, with the Arts and Humanities Research programme Translation and Translation Theories East and West at the Centre for Asian and African Literatures and is a member of the ACUME European research project in Cultural Memory based in Bologna.

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