Translation and Religion: Holy Untranslatable?

Scholars of Arabic and the Qur'an, modern and medieval Christianity, the Bible, Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism and Jainism draw from their own experience to provide insight into the complexities of translating holy texts. First they set out broad issues and a contextual framework for recurring themes, then present case studies such the history of the translation of the Hebrew word 'ish in Genesis, oral literature and the Sufis of Aurangabad, cultural aspects in Qur'an translation, and the language of Soka Gakkai in Italy. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR