Conversely, an old saying has it that every age must retranslate the classics in its own imageotherwise they die.
When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig.
Far wider in scope, the new hermeneutic deals with the key issue of how to retranslate the Christian message for man today, "the meaning of the text in the situation of modern .
DAVID HARTWIG: Multiple scandals are capital's version of summer reruns The English rendering (from the Hebrew) is really quite adequate for a suitable understanding. No need to retranslate or parse foreign languages to get the wisdom that is probably sitting on most readers bookshelves.
June 6, 2013 - The San Angelo Standard-Times