A restless search : a history of Persian translations of the Bible / by Kenneth J. Thomas ; with a contribution by Ali-Asghar Aghbar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John), 1931- author.

Contributor:

Aghbar, Ali Asghar, contributor.

Series:

History of Bible translation ; 3.

History of Bible Translations ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Persian--Versions--History.

Bible.

Bible--Translating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship, American Bible Society, 2015.

Language Note:

Text in English with some text in Persian.

Summary:

A literary detective story, a historical survey, and an important contribution to translation studies This book from Kenneth J. Thomas is both a philological and linguistic analysis of Persian translations and a call for interfaith cooperation. Thomas appraises biblical translation efforts from the fifth to the twenty-first centuries of Persian history when successive translators and groups of translators, sometimes of different faiths, worked to reshape and refine versions of the Bible in the supple Persian language of their times. Restless, impelled, and wide-ranging, this is a story of translations commissioned by shahs, undertaken by Christian and Jewish communities, and produced by teams working outside the country. Features Demonstration of the effects of the lack of a standard Persian vocabulary for key biblical terms on literary style and word choice Technical analyses and overviews of Persian biblical translations A careful examination of sixteen centuries' worth of Bible translations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-944092-01-3

1-944092-02-1