Research Catalog

Title

With her own eyes : the story of Julia Smith, her life, and her Bible / Emily Sampson.

Author

Sampson, Emily.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Working in isolation on a Connecticut farm, Julia Smith (1792-1886) translated the Bible into English. She was the only woman to translate the entire Bible, but her work has been alternately ignored or disparaged by subsequent biblical scholars. This is in part because no English translation other than the King James Version attracted significant attention until the appearance of the Revised Standard Version in 1952." "In With Her Own Eyes, Emily Sampson argues that Smith's work anticipated trends followed by later, usually male, translators and that she deserves recognition as a pioneering and influential biblical scholar in her own right."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Women translators > United States > Biography
• Bible > Translating > United States
• Smith, Julia E., 1792-1886

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-205) and index.

Contents

1. The family tree -- 2. Spring -- 3. Summer -- 4. Autumn -- 5. Winter -- 6. The last leaf -- 7. Position : fixing the place of the Smith translation in the stream of other biblical "translations" -- 8. Translation : an examination of technique -- 9. Reception : then and now -- 10. Appropriation : Julia Smith and The Woman's Bible -- 11. Comparison : more than any man? -- 12. Unpublished translations -- App. A. Chronology of Julia Smith's translations -- App. B. Julia Smith translation holdings of the Connecticut historical society -- App. C. Reading list of Julia Smith, 1810-1825.

ISBN

1572334460 (hardcover)

LCCN

2005006897

OCLC

• ocm58604517
• SCSB-5227269

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries