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“Holocaust” as translation value
The best SBL presentation I attended this year, hands down, was by Shira Leibowitz Schmidt. It was entitled “Translating Biblical Verses in Rabbinic Holocaust Memoirs.” One of the particular translation values she talked about was “holocaust” for some words that many modern Bible translations render as “whole burnt offering.” Many Holocaust survivors dislike “holocaust” as…
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Why I finished my PhD
Peter Enns has written a post making its way around my Facebook thread entitled are PhD programs in biblical studies ethical? a final thought from SBL. This is obviously a complex issue, but I see posts like this often enough that I’ve wanted to sit down and blog my experience for quite a while. When I…
