Sarah Ruden Explained

Sarah Ruden
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Michigan B.A.
Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, M.A.
Harvard University, Ph.D. (Classical Philology)
Website:SarahRuden.com
Awards:1996 Central News Agency Literary Award for book of poems, Other Places

Sarah Elizabeth Ruden is an American writer of poetry, essays, translations of Classic literature, and popularizations of Biblical philology, religious criticism and interpretation.[1] [2]

Early life

Sarah Ruden was born in Ohio in 1962 and raised in the United Methodist Church.[3] She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University.[4]

In addition to her academic appointments, Ruden has worked as a medical editor, a contributor to American periodicals,[5] and a stringer for the South African investigative magazine noseweek.[6]

Ruden became an activist Quaker during her ten years spent in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project.[7] [8] Both before and after her return to the United States in 2005, Ruden has engaged in ecumenical outreach and published a number of articles and essays, in both liberal and conservative publications.[9] [10]

Career

She was a lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. In 2016, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine (2017).[11]

She is an advocate for the popularization of ancient texts.[12]

Ruden has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania since 2018.[13]

Awards

In 2010, Ruden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund her translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus.[14] She won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine in 2016.[15] Her translation of the Gospels was funded in part by a Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress in 2019.[16]

Personal life

Ruden has been a “convinced Friend,” or Quaker convert, since 1992. Her Quakerism informs her translation methodology.[17] [18] [19]

Books

Poetry

Translations

Biblical interpretation

Notes and References

  1. News: The Babel of Biblical Translation. Swaim. Barton. 2017-05-26. Wall Street Journal. 2017-05-31. en-US. 0099-9660.
  2. News: Sarah Ruden's Rebellion Against Our 'Just the Facts' Bibles. ChristianityToday.com. 2017-05-31. en.
  3. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/water/god-running-water The God of Running Water
  4. Web site: respectfulconversation - Sarah Ruden. www.respectfulconversation.net.
  5. https://muckrack.com/sarah-ruden/articles Muck Rack profile: Sarah Ruden
  6. https://pages.jh.edu/jhumag/0902web/wholly.html Johns Hopkins Magazine Alumni spotlight: Sarah Ruden
  7. https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/iowareview/article/id/16581/ Thoughts on Mda, Ndebele and Black South African Writing at the Millennium
  8. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/the-greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
  9. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/search/site/sarah%20ruden Commonweal Magazine authors: Sarah Ruden
  10. https://www.nationalreview.com/author/sarah-ruden/ Sarah Ruden, National Review
  11. Web site: 2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Sarah Elizabeth Ruden. The Whiting Foundation . 21 September 2021.
  12. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004.01.23 Response: Ruden on Clayton on Ruden
  13. https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/sarah-ruden UPenn People: Sarah Ruden
  14. https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/sarah-ruden/ Guggenheim Fellows: Sarah Ruden
  15. https://www.whiting.org/writers/creative-nonfiction-grant Whiting Nonfiction Creative Grantees
  16. https://issuhub.com/view/index/19974?pageIndex=13 Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress Award Winners
  17. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/the-sacred-bonds-of-sound The Sacred Bonds of Sound
  18. https://www.friendsjournal.org/books-about-life-translating-ancient-texts-in-2020/ Books about Life: Translating Ancient Texts in 2021. An Interview with the Biblical Translator Sarah Ruden
  19. https://www.the-reeds.com/interviews/sarah-ruden-on-the-nature-of-translation Sarah Ruden on the Nature of Translation
  20. Web site: SARAH RUDEN. John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation. 21 September 2021.
  21. Web site: Satyricon. www.hackettpublishing.com. en. 2017-05-31.
  22. News: 2015-12-04. Spike Lee Is Back in His Element With Chi-Raq, Perhaps the Greatest Antigun Movie Ever. en. Vulture. 2017-05-31.
  23. News: How to Read the Bible: Slowly, and Sport with the Words. en. National Review. 2017-05-31.
  24. Book: Learning, Gale, Cengage. A Study Guide for Virgil's Aeneid. 2015-09-24. Gale, Cengage Learning. 9781410335036. en.
  25. News: 2016-06-06. With Seamus Heaney in Elysium. en. Harvard Magazine. 2017-05-31.
  26. Web site: Putting Paul in his place: Examining the apostle through the eyes of a classicist. 2017-05-31. USCatholic.org. 11 April 2012 . en.
  27. Web site: Confessions by Augustine, translated by Sarah Ruden. 2017-10-10. penguinrandomhouse.com. en.
  28. https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/9/2/article-p221_6.xml?language=en Review by Roslyn Weiss
  29. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561221/the-gospels-by-a-new-translation-by-sarah-ruden/ Penguin House Website
  30. News: Book reviews: 'Paul Among the People' by Sarah Ruden, 'The Hidden Power of the Gospels' by Alexander J. Shaia. Lampman. Jane. 2010-04-04. The Washington Post. 2017-05-31. en-US. 0190-8286.
  31. Web site: Frankovich . Nicholas . Bible, Hebrew & Greek - Review of Sarah Ruden's Book 'Face of Water' . National Review . 2017-05-22 . 2018-07-31.

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