"Translation, Migration, Conversion: New Directions in Jewish Bible Translation and Beyond."

Sunday, March 15th 2015, 1:00pm to Monday, March 16th 2015, 5:00pm

Sunday: Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley CA 94709, 10:15am. 
Monday: GTU Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley CA 94709, 9:30am. 
 

Please join us for an exciting conference on March 15 and 16th at the Graduate Theological Union bringing together the most interesting historians and theorists of translation with three of the most important translators of our time, two of them local: Robert Alter, Chana Bloch, and Everett Fox. "Translation, Migration, Conversion: New Directions in Jewish Bible Translation and Beyond” will explore the intersection between geographical displacement and the movement between languages and religions, as well pushing the boundaries that separate theorists from practitioners in the field of Bible translation.

 

10:15-10:30 Introductions

 

Session One 10:30-12:30

The Bible in the Light of Its Translation

Deena Aranoff, Berkeley, CA   “The Biblical root ʹmn: Retrieval of a term and its Household Context”

Dror Abend-David,  University of Florida  “Divorce Already?!  Should Israelis Read the Tanakh in Translation?”

Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University   “Nature or Nurture?  Jewish Bible Translators as Prodigies, Pedagogues, and Prophets”

 

Lunch 12:30-1:30

 

Session Two 1:30-3:30

Translation and Migration

Jonathan Sheehan,  University of California, Berkeley  “Type as Translation: The Sacrifices of the Reformation”

Scott Elliott, Adrian College  "Transrendered: Scriptures in the Language of Comics and Graphic Novels"

Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union  "The Afterlife of the Afterlife: Tehiyat Hametim and the Translation of Jewish Liturgy"

 

Session Three 3:45-5:00

On Translating the Bible

Chana Bloch, Berkeley, CA   “In the Fever of Love’: Translating Eros in the Bible” 

Everett Fox, Clark University  “On Translating the Bible—and Performance”

 

Reception: 5:15-6:00

Keynote Address 6:00-7:15

Robert Alter, Berkeley, CA  "The Challenges of Translating the Bible"

 

Monday, March 16, 2015  -  Graduate Theological Union

GTU Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA  94709

 

Session Four 9:30 – 11:30

Translation and Modernity

Jeffrey Shoulson, University of Connecticut   "Hugh Broughton and Early Modern Biblical Scholarship: The King James Bible from the Outside Looking In"

Alan Levenson, University of Oklahoma   “Translation versus Teaching: Competing Agendas in Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Pentateuch”

Abigail Gillman, Boston University  "Ma Sh’mo?  Translating the Name(s) of God”

 

Closing Roundtable: The Future of Bible Translation 11:45-12:45

Participants to be determined