10 May 89                      JUDAIC STUDIES #15          11 Iyar 49 BS"D
Connecting geographically & otherwise disparate groups with a common
interest in the study of Judaica.             Edited by Y. Greenbaum

CONTENTS

1) Event
2) Acknowledgments

1) Event

15-16 May Annenberg Research Institute 416 Walnut St. Philadelphia PA
      Colloquium: Translation of Scriptures

15 May  9:00 Session I  Translation as Exegesis
             Louis Feldman, Chair
             Chaim Cohen: Jewish Medieval Commentary on the Book of
             Genesis and Modern Biblical Philology
             Peter Cowe: Literary and Theological Considerations
             Governing the Strata of the Armenian Version of Scriptures
             Emanuel Tov: Theological Exegesis Embedded in the Septuagint

       10:30 Coffee and Refreshments

       11:30 Session II Translatability: Theological
                        and Literary Considerations
             J. Lassner, Chair
             Ephraim Isaac: `The Horn of Moses' and All That: History of
             a Translation and a Translation of Culture
             Ismail Poonawala: Translatability of the Qur'an:
             Two Conflicting Views
             Jerome Walsh: Melitzaich Pash'u Bi: Theology
             (the Word of God) and the Translation of Poetry
             Alford Welsh: the Translatability of the Qur'an:
             Theological and Literary Implications of What the Qur'an Says

       14:30 Panel Discussion: Theologically Slanted Mistranslations
             This session held at The American Philosophical Society
             104 South 5th Street
             John Gager, Chair
             William Adler: Rufinus and Jerome on
             the Problem of Falsification
             Robert Kraft: Claims in Jewish-Christian Debates Regarding
             Theologically Motivated Mistranslation and Modification of
             Texts
             Harry Orlinsky: The Role of Theology in the
             Mistranslation of the Hebrew Bible

       16:00 Lecture
             Pietro Rossano: From the Vulgata to the Neo-Vulgata

       17:00 Reception at Annenberg Research Institute

16 May  9:00 Session III Translation in a Religious Tradition
             Abraham Wasserstein, Chair
             Nkosinathi Gamedze: Jewish and Christian Readings of
             Scripture: Contrasts in Interpretations and Implications
             for Translation
             Edward Greenstein: What Might Make a Bible Translation
             Jewish
             Eugene Nida: The Issue of `Feedback' in its Relationship
             to Both Translations and Revisions
             Gerbern Oegema: On the Contextuality of Translations
             and the Inspiration of Scriptures
             Nahum Sarna: Translating the Hebrew Bible for Jews

       13:30 Session IV Translation into the Language
                        of Another Religion
             Sasson Somekh, Chair
             Lenn Goodman: Saadiah Gaon's Interpretive Technique
             in Translating the Book of Job
             Herbert Paper: Judeo-Persian Translations
             Jasna Samic: Translations of the Qur'an into Serbo-Croat

       16:00 Adjournment

2) Acknowledgments

This newsletter was assembled at the Annenberg Research Institute,
whose computer personnel were extremely helpful.