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Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why Posted on April 29, 2015 by Christopher Rose Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Leonard Greenspoon, Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations andKlutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University

Any student of a foreign language knows that the process of translating a text can be laden with unexpected choices about words, sentence structure, and phrases that dont make sense in the target language. Now imagine the added pressures of translating a sacred text whose language is well known and imbued with religious significance and symbolism. Our guest Leonard Greenspoon from Creighton University has done just that with translators of the Jewish Bible over the centuries.

In this episode, Dr. Greespoon takes us on a fascinating journey into a Jewish perspective on how and why translating the Bible is necessary, and how and why it matters.

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