Found in translation : essays on Jewish biblical translation in honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon

Found in translation : essays on Jewish biblical translation in honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon / edited by James W. Barker, Anthony Le Donne, and Joel N. Lohr.

"Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civilization and professor of classical and near Eastern studies and of theology at Creighton University...

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Other Authors: Barker, James W. (James William) (Editor), Le Donne, Anthony, 1975- (Editor), Lohr, Joel N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Greenspoon, Leonard J. > (Leonard Jay)
Bible. > Old Testament > Translating.
Bible. > Old Testament
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
Festschrift.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Foreword; The Life of Leonard; Part I: Ancient Hebrew Scriptures and Greek Translations; 1. "Proto-Masoretic," "Pre-Masoretic," "Semi-Masoretic," and "Masoretic": A Study in Terminology and Textual Theory; 2. Symmachus's Version of Joshua; 3. The Final Verses of the Ammonite War Story in 2 Sam 11:1, 12:26-31, and 1 Chron 20:1-3; 4. The Old Greek Translation of Isaiah 40; 5. The Equivalence of Kaige and Quinta in the Dodekapropheton; Part II: Jewish and Christian Scriptures in Modern Translations.
  • 6. The Exodus in America7. Challenges in Translating the Book of Job; 8. On Translating Proverbs 31:10; 9. Lost in Transmission, God: Shoah, Not Holocaust; 10. Translation versus Teaching: Competing Agendas in Samson Raphael Hirsch's Bible Project; 11. Translating Poliscentrism: The Politics of Ethnicity and Ethnos related to Defining Ioudaios; 12. Proclamation, Translation, Implication: Addressing the Vilification of "the Jews"; Index.

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