Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 77 No. 3, 2007.
Review article
A Comparison of the 2006 Edition of Šarić's and the 1968 Zagreb Bible Translations
Mato Zovkić
; Vrhbosna Catholic Theology, Sarajevo, Bosna and Herzegovina
Abstract
This is the text of a conference given by the author to studente and professors of Catholic Faculty of Theology in Djakovo on 20 March 2007. He compares selected pericopae of original Hebrew and Greek texts of four different Old Testament books and four New Testament writings with the Bible translation into Croatian published in Zagreb in 1968 and with amended translation of lvan Šarić which was published for the first time in Sarajevo 1942-1943 in three volumes. Its second edition was in Madrid in 1960 in one volume and the third in Zagreb 2006 also in one volume. He concludes that Šarić 's amended translation is trust worthy and readable. Šarić's Croatian 2006 version has been harmonized with the modern standard Croatian language when language politics is no longer being artificially reconciled with the life of Croats in the former common state of South Slavs. Although nowadays most Bible translations are being prepared by a team of translators and language experts, one of the merits of one person's translation is its language and balance of style.
Keywords
Šarić's 2006 Bible; Zagreb 1968 Bible; translation; original text; comparison
Hrčak ID:
22548
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2007.
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