Translations Index

In the English translations of St. Augustine's works there are more than 30,000 citations of scripture. This comprehensive work provides a long-awaited tool that gives students a window to the scriptures that St. Augustine knew. To the student examining how the scriptures developed over the course of time, The Index yields valuable information about what was extant and available to St. Augustine. To the student learning about Augustine himself, The Index shows how deep Augustine's love was for scripture, how he memorized it, meditated on it, and depended heavily on it as a basis for his theology. Contents: List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Old Testament Index; Old Testament Apocrypha Index; New Testament Index; Notes; Selected Bibliography.

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).