The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues
[Smith, Julia, translator]
Edité par American Publishing Co, Hartford, 1876
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First appearance of the Julia Smith translation, one of 950 copies bound in cloth from a total issue of 1,000.Dark brown cloth ruled in blind and titled in gilt with gilt spine. Red speckled edges. Buff endpapers. Collates complete: [2], [1-3], 4-892, [1-3], 4-276. (Pagination restarts at 1 for the New Testament.) Some gentle rubbing to the boards, but in all a surprisingly bright, fresh, fully unrestored copy of the first full translation of the Bible ever published by a woman. "Of all the Biblical scholars and translators to have worked on the Bible, Julia Evelina Smith is said to be the most interesting and most overlooked. A self-published professional translator and American women s suffrage activist, Smith was the first woman to translate the Bible, doing it from its multiple original languages into English" (Mota). Together with her sister Abby, a self-trained poet and linguist, she independently funded the project in its entirety. Not surprisingly for sisters who were "engaged in the tax resistance and suffrage movements in Connecticut, where the pair were born," Julia and Abby approached their work as activists as well as scholarly and spiritual in nature. After all, Julia wanted the project to support the cause of equality and "hoped to demonstrate that women should have the right to vote because they were not intellectually inferior to men" (Speedie). The project also posed an opportunity for supporting women as craftspeople and business owners, showcasing their capability for producing fine material books. To this end, Julia "selected a publishing house where the typesetting, operation of the presses, and editing were all done by women" (Speedie). The publication of Julia Smith s Bible inspired action on multiple fronts, not least of all in prompting "a much more aggressively ideological treatment of the Bible, The Woman s Bible (1895). Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most vociferous promoters of women s suffrage, this book consisted of a series of excerpts from the Bible which were deemed to concern women, and were accompanied by commentaries written by Bible experts, scholars.a notable feature of the remarks on the roles and images assigned to women in the traditional Bible is their reliance on Smith's Bible as an authority" (von Flotow). In her appendix, Stanton declared that "Julia Smith's translation stands out unique among all translations. It is the only one ever made by a woman." In every sense, the sisters created a "feminist Bible" that remains a milestone in women s history (Stern). N° de réf. du vendeur 4497
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Titre : The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New ...
Éditeur : American Publishing Co, Hartford
Date d'édition : 1876
Edition : First edition.
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The Holy Bible: Containing The Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues.
Edité par
American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn., 1876
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Edition originale
Vendeur : Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, Etats-Unis
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First edition of the first complete translation of the Bible into English done by a woman, Julia E. Smith (1792-1886), of Glastonbury Connecticut. One of 1,000 copies printed. Quarto, bound in full modern calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An invaluable Bible for its period which remains a rare translation. In her preface to the present volume, Smith states: "It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. It has occupied the time and attention of the wisest and most learned of all ages, believing, as the world has believed, that such only could give the correct rendering of the language in which the Bible was written. It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. It has occupied the time and attention of the wisest and most learned of all ages, believing, as the world has believed, that such only could give the correct rendering of the language in which the Bible was written." Smith began her translation in 1847 and finished it in 1855. In 1876, at 84 years of age, some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies. The translation was one of only a few contemporary English translations out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of the Revised Version in 1881â"1894. This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period. The translation also appears to have been banned in its history, likely due to the translator being a woman, and it remains a rare translation. N° de réf. du vendeur 142865
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The Holy Bible : Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues [and with a Preface] (by Julia E. Smith)
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Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1876, 1876
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Vendeur : James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, Etats-Unis
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Small 4to (10 x 7"), original brown cloth, gilt title at spine and upper cover, speckled edges. Title leaf, [1]892 pp. (Old Test.), [1]276 pp. (New Test.). CONDITION: A very good, bright copy, some light discoloration along the fore-edge of the rear cover, but otherwise nearly flawless. A remarkably well-preserved example of the first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (17921886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of women's rights by demonstrating what a woman might accomplish. However, she did not publish her work for another twenty years. In her preface, Smith notes: "It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. I had studied Latin and Greek at school, and began by translating the Greek New Testament, and then the Septuagint. I soon gave my attention to the Hebrew, and studied it thoroughly, and wrote it out word for word, giving no ideas of my own, but endeavoring to put the same English word for the same Hebrew or Greek word, everywhere. It took me about seven years to accomplish the five translations, at least." In her radical and controversial work, The Woman's Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton noted of Smith's translation that copies "will be a rarity in the next century and will be much sought after by bibliomaniacs, to say of nothing of scholars who will want it for its real value." A lovely copy of this landmark Bible. REFERENCES: Simms, The Bible in America, pp. 14950; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible, p. 151. N° de réf. du vendeur 9125
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