Translation Through the Ages5 lesson(s)
Reference, Translation, & Dictionaries · Intermediate
The History of Translation and the Book
By admin · Follow translation from Sumerian tablets to the printing press to the internet, and see how books carried ideas across languages for four thousand years.
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This course traces the long partnership between translation and the book, from cuneiform tablets and the Septuagint to the printing press and modern globalization. You will meet the scholars of the House of Wisdom, the Bible translators of Europe, and the digitized libraries of today, and see how each era reshaped what it means to move words between languages.