The invention of Jewish identity : Bible, philosophy, and the art of translation / Aaron W. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Jewish philosophy.

Bible. Old Testament--Translating.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Versions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular times and needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believes translation has profound implications for Jewish identity. The Invention of Jewish Identity presents the first sustained analysis of Bible translation and its impact on Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century. Hughes examines some of the most important Jewish thinkers -- Saadya Gaon, Moses ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Judah Messer Leon, Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig -- and their work on biblical narrative, to understand how linguistic and conceptual idioms change and develop into ideas about the self. The philosophical issues behind Bible translation, according to Hughes, are inseparable from more universal sets of questions that affect Jewish life and learning.

Contents:

Introductory and interpretive contexts

The forgetting of history and the memory of translation

The translation of silence and the silence of translation : the fabric of metaphor

The apologetics of translation

Translation and its discontents

Translation and issues of identity and temporality

Conclusions : between spaces.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-97575-7

9786612975752

0-253-00479-9

OCLC:

712995484