Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Ezekiel 1-24

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27442-6
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Studia Semitica Neerlandica

The Peshitta Institute Leiden is fulfilling its aim of producing a critical edition of the Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta version. As this critical edition becomes available, Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Ezekiel 1-24: A Frame Semantics Approach takes its role in providing perspectives on the value of the Peshitta to Ezekiel in Old Testament textual studies.

Godwin Mushayabasa uses the cognitive linguistics approach of frame semantics to determine what techniques were used to translate Ezekiel 1-24 from Hebrew to Syriac. He observes that the Peshitta was translated at the level of semantic frames, producing a fairly literal translation. In achieving this, the author also invokes interdisciplinary dialogue between biblical textual studies and cognitive linguistics sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mushayabasa, Godwin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Godwin Mhuriyashe Mushayabasa, Ph.D. (2013), North-West University, South Africa, is a Postdoctoral fellow at that university. He has published articles on the Peshitta translation as well as the textual history of the Book of Ezekiel.