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TRANSLATION STUDIES: A BRIEF HISTORY A brief history of the discipline Cicero, Horace (1st cent BCE), St Jerome (4th cent. CE): The Bible – battleground of conflicting ideologies in western Europe: literal vs. free (word or sense; interpres ut orator) Period until the late 1960s: TR – an element of language learning (in modern language courses) the grammar-translation method) classical languages + M. Luther (modern languages) – translation exercises a means of learning foreign language (reading skills) change of attitude with the rise of the direct method (spoken lang.) - NO translation in the classroom Since the 1970s: TR developed into an academic discipline 1. The early period The practice of translation was discussed by Cicero and Horace (first century BCE) and St Jerome (fourth century AD); their writings exerted an important influence up until the twentieth century St Jerome’s approach to translating the Greek Septuagint Bible into Latin affected later translations of the Scriptures. Non verbum de verbo sed sensum de senso! the translation of the Bible was to be – for well over a thousand years and especially during the Reformation in the sixteenth century – the battleground of conflicting ideologies in western Europe What happened at the Tower of Babel? The Tower of Babel is described in Genesis chapter 11, verses 1-9. After the Flood, God commanded humanity to increase in number and fill the earth (Genesis 9:1). Humanity decided to do the exact opposite, Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4). Humanity decided to build a great city and all congregate there. They decided to build a gigantic tower as a symbol their power, to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4). This tower is remembered as the Tower of Babel.In response, God confused the languages of humanity so that we could no longer