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Greenspoon, Leonard. 2004. Texts and contexts: perspectives on Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible. In Long, Lynne, ed. Translation and religion: holy untranslatable? (Topics in Translation 28). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp. 54–64.
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Article in jnl/bk
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English
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Abstract
The author approaches the issue of translating by examining a series of translations of a single work (the Tanakh) within a single community (the Jews) over an extended period of time. He notes that Jewish translations, as a rule, tend to privilege the source language.
Source : A. Matthyssen