As true to Bible as possible, in Bengali
The first Bengali translation of the complete Bible from India was published on Friday.
bq. Mangalvarta Bible is a 40-year endeavour by two writers, Father Christian Mignon and Sajol Banerjea.
bq. The Bible, published by Xavier Publications at Chitrabani Society, is made up of 3,500 pages and will also be available in Bangladesh. Mignon, a Jesuit priest, Biblical scholar and translator, and Banerjea, a poet and teacher, set about translating the holy book in 1967. As the number of pages kept on increasing, the Bible had to be published in three volumes to make it handy.
bq. “Of the two types of translations, literal and literary, we chose the second,” Banerjea explained. “Literal translation has marred Bengali versions earlier and so, we decided to avoid it. Our goal was to make the text as natural, limpid and pleasant as possible,” he added.
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Source: The Telegraph, Calcutta, India
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