Paraphrasing in Modern Czech Bible Translation
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Paraphrasing in Modern Czech Bible Translation
Original language description
The topic of paraphrasing or "freedom" in Bible translation has not been consistently iscussed in depth so far in the Czech environment. Yet there are two modern translations of the entire New Testament from Greek into English, which their authors call "paraphrased". One is a text known as Slovo na cestu [The Word for the Journey] (acronym: SNC), developed by an informal Ecumenical group and first published in 1989. The other is a translation by Joseph Kurz, an evangelical Christian, which was published in 2013 (long after the author's death) but completed as a manuscript in as early as 1980 (i.e. when SNC was in its infancy). The text of the SNC has so far received little scholarly attention. The translation by Josef Kurz is generally almost unknown and no published scholarly study has yet been devoted to it. The article presents the place of both SNC and Kurz in the context of the relatively rich tradition of modern Czech Bible translation, showing the essential features of each of the two versions and providing a basic comparison between them. It was on the basis of comparative analysis that SNC and Kurz proved to be two distinctly different approaches to "paraphrasing" in the translation of Holy Scriptures, which enrich the tradition of the Czech Bible translation in an interesting way and which may, in a number of aspects, inspire future translations (not just "paraphrased" ones) into Czech as well as other structurally related (especially Slavic) languages.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60303 - Theology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Challenges for Ancient and Modern Bible Translations
ISBN
978-1-4632-4827-7
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
359-383
Number of pages of the book
504
Publisher name
Gorgias Press
Place of publication
Piscataway, NJ
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