Hanna Soliman, S orcid.org/0000-0001-5763-1784 (2019) When Jesus speaks colloquial Egyptian Arabic: an incarnational understanding of translation. Religion, 49 (3). pp. 364-387. ISSN 0048-721X
Abstract
Al-Khabar al-Ṭayyib bitāʿ Yasūʿ al-Masīḥ (the Good News of Jesus Christ, 1927) is one of the earliest, if not the first, translation of the New Testament into colloquial Arabic. Initiated by the British missionary and civil engineer William Willcocks, the translation responds to different linguistic and ideological tensions at a time when Egypt endeavoured to configure its national identity. In using colloquial Egyptian Arabic, the translation was motivated by the then dominant missionary ethos of translating into the vernaculars, which was propagated at the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. This article has two aims: first to understand Willcocks’ translation in light of two competing conceptualisations of ‘sacred language’ among speakers of Arabic in Egypt; second, to explore the synergy between theology and translation studies and test the viability of theological concepts such as that of ‘incarnation’ in explaining translation phenomena in the sacred context.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Religion on 06 Jun 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0048721X.2019.1622841 |
Keywords: | Al-Khabar al-Ṭayyib; sacredness; colloquial Egyptian Arabic; incarnation; kenosis; Quran |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2019 08:22 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2020 01:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1622841 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145182 |