Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival

Translating the Bible

A Symposium

Monday, October 16, 2006
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program

Everett Fox, Clark University
Jack Sasson, Vanderbilt University
Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley
Moderator: Gary Rendsburg, Rutgers University

Location: Douglass College Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick
Time: 7:00 pm

Please RSVP by October 6.
A reception will follow.

This panel will examine the history of English Bible translation and explore questions that translators face, such as whether the text of the Bible should be rendered literally or idiomatically, and with gendered language (reflecting the Hebrew) or gender-neutral
language (the norm in modern English).

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