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Old Testament Translations and Interpretation

open access: yesInterpretation- Journal of Bible and Theology, 1978
By comparing modern translations of an Old Testament text, an interpreter can identify points at which the Hebrew text is difficult to render into English and will also discover clues to the way the text should be understood.
Keith R. Crim
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Translations of the Old Testament

1997
John A. L. Lee, Kevin H. Lee
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Lapses of Old Testament Translators

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1938
No BOOK has been so frequently translated as the Hebrew Bible and none has been the object of such profound and critical scholarship, and yet no book has probably been less accurately translated than that same Bible. The main difficulty is, of course, that Hebrew and English are so very different from each other in vocabulary, grammar, and syntax.
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Language and Translation of the Old Testament

2009
Abstract This article begins with a brief linguistic sketch of the Hebrew and Aramaic of the Bible. It then focuses on the inherent difficulty of ascertaining meaning in the Hebrew Bible (or, in the Christian tradition, the Old Testament, without the deutero-canonical, or apocryphal, books), from both a textual and a linguistic ...
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Old Testament Poetry: The Translatable Structure

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1977
Translation is notoriously impossible, and yet people persist in doing it, perhaps nowhere so much as in the case of the Bible. And, while prose is generally more translatable than poetry, it is Old Testament poetry that survives the process with peculiar success, by reason of the peculiar poetic form of the original: a system of parallelism, or ...
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Translating the Untranslatable: To the Reception of the Proper Names in the Old Bulgarian Translation of the Old Testament

2022
The paper is devoted to an unstudied problem in paleoslavistics and aims to clarify the extent to which the Old Bulgarian translation of the Old Testament adequately renders the biblical proper names. Of course, we must take into account the fact that the Old Bulgarian translation of the biblical books (10th c.) was not made directly from the Hebrew ...
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Old Testament Translation Problems

The Bible Translator, 1961
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