How 3500 translation can enrich a text feat. Jost Zetzsche

Episode 81 June 23, 2023 01:11:56
How 3500 translation can enrich a text feat. Jost Zetzsche
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How 3500 translation can enrich a text feat. Jost Zetzsche

Jun 23 2023 | 01:11:56

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Show Notes

The Translation Insight & Perspectives tool (tips.translation.bible) collects and freely displays data from all languages the Christian Bible has been translated into to highlight the different ways cultures and languages have particular and sometimes unique capacities to communicate certain messages in exceptionally enriching ways that other languages cannot.

This is relevant to anyone interested in how hyper-multilingualism continually transforms a text and how translation is a process that fulfills a text rather than loses meaning.

Recent article in ML: https://multilingual.com/issues/may-2023/the-language-of-faith/

About Jost:
Jost Zetzsche is a professional translator and language consultant who lives at the Oregon coast. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, he earned a Ph.D. for a dissertation on the history of Chinese Bible translation at the University of Hamburg in 1996. 1999 Jost co-founded International Writers' Group, LLC, on the Oregon coast. Since 2016 he has been contracting with United Bible Societies to help create and maintain the Translation Insights and Perspectives (TIPs) tool at tips.translation.bible. His two latest books are "Characters with Character: 50 Ways to Rekindle Your Love Affair with Language" and "Encountering Bare-Bones Christianity."

Links to other articles and podcasts about the tool: https://tips.translation.bible/news/

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