Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation

by Naomi Seidman

Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish-Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish-Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to a theological-political analysis, Seidman asks how the charged Jewish-Christian relationship-and more particularly the dependence of Christianity on the texts and translations of a rival religion-has haunted the theory and practice of translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226745066
• ISBN13: 9780226745060
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"