Faithful renderings : Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation / / Naomi Seidman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807712003321
• Autore: Seidman Naomi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-282-53743-1; 9786612537431; 0-226-74507-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 pages)
• Collana: Afterlives of the Bible
• Disciplina: 418/.02089924
• Soggetti: Jews - Languages - Translating; Hebrew language - Translating; Jewish literature - Translations - History and criticism; Judaism - Relations - Christianity; Christianity and other religions - Judaism; Translating and interpreting - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The translator as double agent -- Immaculate translation : sexual fidelity, textual transmission, and the virgin birth -- "The beauty of Greece in the tents of Shem" : Aquila between the camps -- False friends : conversion and translation from Jerome to Luther -- A translator culture -- The Holocaust in every tongue -- Translation and assimilation : Singer in America -- Endecktes Judenthum? : a translator's note.
• Sommario/riassunto: Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish-Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish-Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to a theological-political analysis, Seidman asks how the charged Jewish-Christian relationship-and more particularly the dependence of Christianity on the texts and translations of a rival religion-has haunted the theory and practice of translation in the West. Bringing together central issues in translation studies with episodes in Jewish-Christian history, Naomi Seidman considers a range of texts, from the Bible to ; Elie Wiesel's Night, delving into such controversies as the accuracy of various Bible translations, the medieval use of converts from Judaism to Christianity as translators, the censorship of anti-Christian references in Jewish texts, and the translation of Holocaust testimony. Faithful Renderings ultimately reveals that translation is not a marginal phenomenon but rather a crucial issue for understanding the relations between Jews and Christians and indeed the development of each religious community.