I think your research topic looks very interesting. How did you decide to call it "colonial art" and not something like "colonial paratext" or "text and paratext in translations of the colonial period"?? When I see "art", I think of the illustrations in the Bible. I hope you make steady progress in your research.
Hi John, after I submitted it to the faculty, I learned that some European translations of the Quran were also printed with black covers. It seems black is the standard colour for scriptures in Western aesthetics, and colonizers passed it to us. I see it as a colonial feature. This is not difficult to replace it with a different colour, but the point I am trying to raise for our policymakers is that we are standing at the same place where colonizers left us. The art of Bible translation in the colonies needs liberation.
Yes, you are right about the number of Sanskrit speakers. This is true. Since it was the language in which scriptures were revealed, it was holy and only high-caste people were allowed to learn Sanskrit. Sanskrit text would be ST, Hindi, or any other language will be TT.
Waseem Raza I suggest asking others in this group as well. It sounds like you are discussing the text as well as the paratext, so I like the title "Text and Paratext in Bible Translations of the Colonial Era." Just my thought.
Dear Aaron. Thanks for your very good suggestion. I later chaged it to Colonial Model of Bible Translation. Part I of this report has been publihsed in the magazine of Dutch Bible Society. I posted a link to that on MAP this morning.
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I think your research topic looks very interesting. How did you decide to call it "colonial art" and not something like "colonial paratext" or "text and paratext in translations of the colonial period"?? When I see "art", I think of the illustrations in the Bible. I hope you make steady progress in your research.
Hi John, after I submitted it to the faculty, I learned that some European translations of the Quran were also printed with black covers. It seems black is the standard colour for scriptures in Western aesthetics, and colonizers passed it to us. I see it as a colonial feature. This is not difficult to replace it with a different colour, but the point I am trying to raise for our policymakers is that we are standing at the same place where colonizers left us. The art of Bible translation in the colonies needs liberation.
Yes, you are right about the number of Sanskrit speakers. This is true. Since it was the language in which scriptures were revealed, it was holy and only high-caste people were allowed to learn Sanskrit. Sanskrit text would be ST, Hindi, or any other language will be TT.
Waseem Raza I suggest asking others in this group as well. It sounds like you are discussing the text as well as the paratext, so I like the title "Text and Paratext in Bible Translations of the Colonial Era." Just my thought.
Dear Aaron. Thanks for your very good suggestion. I later chaged it to Colonial Model of Bible Translation. Part I of this report has been publihsed in the magazine of Dutch Bible Society. I posted a link to that on MAP this morning.