Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation
Some Reformation Controversies and their Background

A study of it will be illuminating.

W. Schwarz (Author)

9780521097536, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 January 2009

248 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.32 kg

From the foreword by Dr C. H. Dodd: 'Those who are hardy enough to put their hands to the fascinating but elusive task of Bible translation soon become aware of a host of problems which must be settled one way or other in the course of the work. Questions cannot be either evaded or answered out of hand. That they are no new questions we may learn from this book. The controversy between Erasmus and Luther was essentially the same as the controversy between Jerome and Augustine centuries earlier; and indeed the main issues may be said to have been raised as soon as the Septuagint made a bid for acceptance as the equivalent of the Hebrew Scriptures. All this we may read, set forth with learning and penetration, in Dr Schwarz's book. A study of it will be illuminating to the translator, salutary to the critic and profitable to anyone interested either in the art of translation in general or, particularly, in the enterprise of making the biblical writings accessible in the vernacular to the mind of this generation.'

Foreword by Dr C. H. Dodd
Preface
Preface to the 1970 impression
List of abbreviations
1. The Bible and the translator
2. Discussions on the origin of the Septuagint
3. The traditional view
4. The philological view: Reuchlin
5. The philological view: Erasmus of Rotterdam
6. The Inspirational view: Luther
Bibliography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]