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Digging in the Garden of Eden

Author(s)

Mary Phil Korsak

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2018.04.002

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Higher Institute of Translators and Interpreters of Brussels, Belgium

ABSTRACT

The paper first presents the translation of Hebrew Genesis entitled At the Start… Genesis Made New. The new version belongs to the field of ethno-poetics. It intends to take today’s listener/reader back in time by capturing the characteristics of the original Hebrew and expressing them through the medium of modern English. If translations may be said to reflect archaeological layers of social history, At the Start... Genesis Made New attempts to dig down with the purpose of reaching the deepest layer: critical analysis of terminology in the Garden of Eden story provides insights into the primitive Hebrew society that invented this particular myth more than 3,000 years ago. The paper also looks at the same story as translated in the Revised Standard Version, first published as the Authorised Version or King James Bible in 1661, and The New English Bible, published in 1961. Different world views characteristic of European society in recent centuries colours the understanding of the biblical text. The translations are affected in consequence. A comparison between the versions is revealing…

KEYWORDS

YHWH Elohim, man/woman, ground/groundling

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, April 2018, Vol. 8, No. 4, 171-179

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