TY - BOOK AU - Seidman,Naomi TI - Faithful renderings: Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation T2 - Afterlives of the Bible SN - 9780226745077 (electronic bk.) AV - PJ5067 .S45 2006eb U1 - 418/.02089924 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Translating KW - O.T KW - Greek KW - Versions KW - Jews KW - Languages KW - Hebrew language KW - Jewish literature KW - Translations KW - History and criticism KW - Judaism KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Political aspects KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Translating & Interpreting KW - bisacsh KW - Oude Testament KW - gtt KW - Vertalingen KW - Joden KW - Christenen KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=312178 ER -