“Musk among Perfumes”
The complexities of scriptural translation intensify in colonial, multilingual societies. In this study, we examine Thomas Stephens’s Kristapurana (1616) as a significant moment of cross-cultural encounters in the history of Bible translation in India. Stephens (1549–1619) was an English Jesuit, who...
| Publié dans: | Church history and religious culture |
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| Auteurs: | ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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| Dans: |
Church history and religious culture
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Stephens, Thomas 1549-1619, Kristapurāṇa
/ Bible
/ Marathi
/ Hinduism
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| RelBib Classification: | BK Hindouisme CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses CD Christianisme et culture KAH Époque moderne KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Translation
Christianity
Kristapurana
Thomas Stephens (1549–1619)
Christian writings
puranas
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| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | The complexities of scriptural translation intensify in colonial, multilingual societies. In this study, we examine Thomas Stephens’s Kristapurana (1616) as a significant moment of cross-cultural encounters in the history of Bible translation in India. Stephens (1549–1619) was an English Jesuit, who worked in Goa, India. The Kristapurana is written in the Marathi language, in Roman script. Stephens’s Purana can be considered the first attempt to bring the biblical story into an Indian language, although in poetic form. This study aims to bring out the significance of this early Christian work in the Marathi language by analyzing Stephens’s translation of the biblical story into Marathi. The Kristapurana is studied as a site where Christianity and indigenous Hindu practices come together to form a “creative” expression of Christianity strongly reminiscent of the region that it was produced in. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contient: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09603003 |