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Tendentious Translation and the Evangelical Imperative: Religious Polemic in the Early Armenian Church

Cowe, S. Peter · 1991

A study of how doctrinal agenda shaped translation choices in the early Armenian Church, showing translation as an instrument of religious polemic and evangelisation rather than a neutral transfer of text.

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Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 22 (1990-1991), pp. 97–114 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.22.0.2017166
Year
1991
Language
English
DOI
10.2143/REA.22.0.2017166

Citation

Cowe, S. Peter 1991. Tendentious Translation and the Evangelical Imperative: Religious Polemic in the Early Armenian Church. Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 22 (1990-1991), pp. 97–114 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.22.0.2017166. https://doi.org/10.2143/REA.22.0.2017166

What this offers a reader

For students

Translation is never neutral, and the early Armenian Church knew it.

For academics

Argues for translation as doctrinal instrument in the formative Armenian Church.

For the community

Our first translators were making theology, not just copying it.

For a general reader

How Armenia's earliest translators built doctrine into scripture itself.

Topics

Armenian Bible translationdoctrinal polemicearly Armenian Churchtranslation ideologypatristicsevangelisation

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