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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Knox, Ronald from TRIALS OF A TRANSLATOR (1949)

The transition from one sentence

to the next must be made logically

clear, even at the cost of introducing

words which are not there, but are

implicit in the context.  Your vocabulary

must be chosen, not so much by reference

to the use of this or that word elsewhere

in the Old Testament [TANAK] as by 

reference to the needs of this particular

passage -- token-words will not do.  You

must cast your sentences into a form which

will preserve not only the meaning but the

rhetoric of the original, or the flying

wrack of imagery will pass you by --

pages 33 - 34

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