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This paper examines passages of works by Saint Augustine, Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin based on certain themes proposed by Jacques Derrida, with an emphasis on the issue of translation and writing as an inscription of the self. The problem (the Benjaminian Aufgabe, that is, a necessary and impossible task) is how to translate the untranslatable, namely, the life, the necessity and the impossibility of this translation, narrated from the philosophy of these four authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article was elaborated for four hands, with two well defined tasks for each collaborator. The first is the result of a doctoral thesis on the transla- tions of biblical texts. The second, which focuses more on the various Targumim and their relationship to the New Testament, is the result of the "The Targum and the New Testament" Research Project. The main objective of this article is to show the relationship between the Aramaic Paraphrases of the Hebrew Text and the New Testament. Linked to this objective the article intends to show how these translations are the result of a long process of accommodation, revision and censorship, and finally of writing a tradition that has formed throughout history. To accomplish this will be covered the following steps. The first three parts of the article will be devoted to the presentation of the Targumim in its general aspects. The fourth part is dedicated to showing some parallels between the Targumim and some texts of New Testament. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his essay "The task of the translator", Benjamin aims to show that the translation is not a simple sequel product of the original text, but "exposes" the latter to the reader. Denying the communicative function of the literary text, he also denies an intermediate function of its translation, which does not open an access channel to the original text, since both are parts of a major totality, converging in "pure language". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]