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Work written in one
language is re – created in
another
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Septuagint

A collection
of Jewish Koine Greek
scriptures
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Bede’s Ecclesiastical Boethius’ Consolation St. Jerome’s

History of Philosophy Vulgate
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ASIA ARABS

The spread of Undertook large-scale

Buddhism led to efforts at translation.
large-scale ongoing They
translation efforts made Arabic versions
spanning well over a of its philosophical
thousand years. and scientific works
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Thomas Malory’s Tyndale

Le Morte Darthur New Testament (1525)
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RENAISSANCE
CENTURY CENTURY CENTURY CENTURY
Marsilio Ficino’s Latin Erasmus’ Latin edition
translation of Plato’s work of New Testament
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Elizabethan
Period

Progress beyond mere paraphrase

toward an ideal of stylistic equivalence
but there was no concern for verbal
accuracy
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Period CENTURY

James Macpherson’s
“translations” of Ossian
• The watchword of
translators was ease of
reading.

• Whatever they did not

understand in a text,
or might bore readers,
they omitted.
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Edward FitzGerald’s
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• New standards of
accuracy and style

• J.M Cohen
“the text, the whole text,
and nothing but the text”
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Bejamin Jowett

“Accuracy
rather than
style”
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Retrieval of lost information

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Understanding of the universal thought.

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Sharing of beliefs
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Understanding and appreciation of culture.

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Bridging cultural barriers

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Advancement in human achievement

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Addressing social needs

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Binding Nations
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Neo – Culture Development