Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in Lxx Proverbs (Sbl - Academia Biblica Sbl - Academia Biblica): 15 - Hardcover

Tauberschmidt, Gerhard; Tauberschmidt, G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004127348 ISBN 13: 9789004127340

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

The Septuagint translates the Hebrew of Proverbs freely. Therefore LXX Proverbs cannot simply be translated back into Hebrew to determine an underlying Hebrew source text. The translator's techniques and possible translational alterations must be considered along with religious, moral, social, and economic influences. This volume shows particularly how dynamic Hebrew parallelisms became more static in translation. The translator's tendency to produce closely corresponding lines is striking. "Secondary Parallelism" urges scholars, commentators, and Bible translators to consider these issues before using LXX Proverbs for "better" parallelisms to correct the Masoretic Hebrew Text. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

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Synopsis

Tauberschmidt has slightly revised his 2001 Ph.D. dissertation in religious studies for the University of Aberdeen. In it he argues that the translator of LXX Proverbs frequently rendered Hebrew parallelism in a form that is more closely parallel than the Masoretic Text, that is the colons of couplets correspond more closely to each other semantica

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004127348
• ISBN 13: 9789004127340
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Number of pages: 254