7 sentences with 'translations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word translations and other words derived from it.
• « These funerary texts were known as Pert em hru, which various translations later rendered as The Coming of the Day or The Manifestation of Light. »
• « There was an equally strong Jewish intellectual legacy that provided accurate translations from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek, giving Greek-speaking Christians access to a reliable version of the Old Testament. »
• « In other words, translations of the Qur'an may be made for the sake of education, but every word of the Qur'an, spoken in the classical Arabic of Muhammad's time, is believed to be the true language of God, since according to traditional Islamic belief, angels speak Arabic in paradise. »
• « In the course of the 11th century, translations of Aristotle's work on formal philosophical logic re-emerged in Europe. Most had been preserved in the Arab world, where Aristotle was considered the most important pre-Islamic philosopher and was studied with great rigour by Arab scholars. »
• « Erasmus was criticised by some of his superiors within the Church because he was not officially authorised to carry out his studies and translations; however, he ended up producing an extensively annotated re-translation of the New Testament with numerous corrections. Importantly, these corrections were not just a matter of grammar, but of meaning. »
• « He was also an advocate of translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, although he himself did not produce such a translation. »
• « Also, with the explosion of new translations of classical works, it became clear that ancient scholars had actively debated and even rejected the teachings of figures such as Aristotle. This suggested that it was legitimate to question even the most fundamental ancient ideas. »