Cultures skimmed earth and sea, coined all things, played sophisticated mind games, and immortalized all their strange ideas and concept by giving them unique names. They sometimes adopted loanwords from each other, if one obviously had what the other had not. In history, no war could ever affect the faith of a nation more lasting than translation did: Saint Jerome ended the Jewish world order, literally, by translating the Hebrew Bible into Latin. And when Martin Luther, the German priest, translated the Latin Bible into German, the last reminiscences of the Roman Empire vaporized.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:55:32 +0000
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