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The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).

Hebrew literature has a more or less continuous history since the Bible [H.c.i].
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls dating from late Second Temple period (
roughly 2nd c. BCE-ISI c. CE) has illustrated vividly how creatively the language
was used at that time. A little later it was adopted as the vehicle of the Rabbinic
movement, which eventually became the dominant expression of Judaism until
the I9th c. The main challenger to Rabbinism, the Karaite movement that first
emerged in ...