Translation as Transcendence

A Glimpse into the Workshop of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible Translation

Bibliographic Data

ID4070801
AuthorsLeora Batnitzky (0000-0001-7461-9066, corresponding author)
Year1997
Issue70
Pages87
Publication date1997-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/488500
OpenAlexW2324577794
LanguageEN
Citations received3

With the publication of an English translation of Martin Buber's and Franz Rosenzweig's essays on biblical translation and method, the Englishspeaking world finally has a glimpse into the workshop of the BuberRosenzweig translation of the Hebrew Bible into German. There is something undeniably odd, however, about a translation of essays on translation, in which the particular points of the texts translated refer only to the details and technicalities of languages other than the reader's own. What is interesting is that this strangeness adds to what Buber and Rosenzweig sought to achieve with their translation: to make the German alien by means of the Hebrew. They believed that the task of the translator must be to create distance for the reader, not to bridge it. Indeed, this notion of translation is most important for the Bible, the book of all books, whose translation must remind the reader, if nothing else, of its original. Behind these ideas, and the particular strategies that go with them, is a complex theological vision accompanied by an intricate philosophy of language. Although some of the essays in this book were first published separately

Theology · Transcendence (philosophy) · Translation (biology) · Biochemistry · Chemistry · Literature and Cultural Memory · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub