Testimony about theory and praxis of translation reach far back in the antiquity. Some of them concern the Bible, most of them translation of classical Greek, Latin and other texts. Well-known translators expressed their views and experiences mostly in introduction to their translations, in the more modern time they present them also in scholarly and scientific meetings. The main function of language is communication of the meaning; the main task of a translator are then analysis and transference of the meaning from one to other language. Every translation is according to its very nature interpretation. The easiest way to reach transference of the meaning is analysis of the meaning of the original text as the whole. This applies to translation of all literary works, exceptional plurality of the meaning of basic terms in the Bible shows, however, that biblical texts are unique in nature. Uniqueness in the train of meanings manifests itself in all earliest translations of the Bible in other languages from the Hebrew to the Greek. Translations were confronted with numerous problems, they did not yet deal with them antil then, for instance with transrerenc from Semitic in Indo-evropean languages and with rendering of terms from one in another culture.
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The unique status of Jerusalem comprises the motifs of election of Jerusalem and its Temple as a permanent divine presence and of Zion as God’s chosen mountain. This makes Jerusalem the physical and spiritual centre of the world. Interpreters of ancient Jewish and Christian sources are puzzled by this dilemma: how literally are Jerusalem’s claims and promises to be taken in view of descriptions of Jerusalem in metaphorical, hyperbolic poetic and eschatological terms? The rhetorical antithesis between the Jerusalem of God’s plan and the Jerusalem of Israel’s apostasy, between the vision and the reality, between Earthly or carnal and Heavenly or spiritual Jerusalem became inevitable. Consequently, Jerusalem has been interpreted in theology, liturgy and art in realistic, imaginary, idealistic, and symbolic ways. The aim of the article is to show how more than one conceptual point of view can be deduced from the context of some crucial texts of the Old and New Testaments and from non-Biblical Jewish and Christian sources.
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The monograph offers a critical overview of views on reality and truth in the areas of philosophy and literary criticism. Works of literature and art do not characterize experience and recognition as such, but they point to the reactions of concrete personalities to human existential problems. The study concerns itself with pre-modern philosophical reflections on reality and truth, as well as with the post-modern ways of representing truth in myth, history, biography, autobiography, and fiction. The monograph is a pioneering work in Slovenia on these topics and is one of the few works of its type in the global realm.
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