By Janet W. Dyk
ISBN-10: 9004241981
ISBN-13: 9789004241985
Utilizing the VU college syntactically analyzed, hiearchically dependent database of historic languages, the authors in comparison the Masoretic textual content of Kings to the Syriac Peshitta translation. The middle query during this comparability is: which deviations among the 2 texts are with regards to the necessities of the particular language platforms, that are with regards to different facets of the interpretation method, and that are regarding the transmission background of the translated textual content? even though linguistic and text-historical ways vary in procedure and concentration, examine into historical biblical translations needs to take either under consideration. at the foundation of a synoptic matching at clause point, corresponding words in the clauses are matched, and corresponding phrases inside of words. a decision out of a wealth of distinctive transformations hence dropped at mild are mentioned on the syntactic point at which the phenomenon most closely fits: notice, word, clause and above the clause.
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29 2Kgs 17:21 harks back to events recounted in 1 Kings 12. This may have prompted a later editor to replace ????ܝܣܪܝܠ, preserved in 9a1, by the designation of Israel that prevails in 1Kings 12, ܕܒܝܬ ܐܝܣܪܝܠ. 30 In 1Kgs 1:9; 8:2; 12:18, 19, 21; 2Kgs 23:2 reference is made to the people gathered on a special occasion. The translator may have extended the expression ‘house of Israel / Judah’, common in the Masoretic text of 1 Kings 12, to other texts mentioning the gathering of the people. 2. 4.
In the Syriac of v. 42, the parallel to v. 36, והלכת אנה ואנה, ‘and go anywhere else’, is replaced by a parallel to v. 37, ועברת את נחל =( ܘܬܥܒܪ ܢܚ???? ܕܩܕܪܘܢ )קדרון, ‘and cross the Kidron brook’. The fact that the opening words of the citation——ביום צאתךrefer back to v. 37, probably caused the Peshitta to bring the entire citation in agreement with v. 37. The phrase ܡܢ ܐܘܪܫܠܡ, ‘from Jerusalem’, which in v. 42 is a plus vis-àvis the Masoretic text, does not derive from v. 37. The fact that the Syriac phrase corresponds to ἐξ Ἰερουσαλὴμ in the Septuagint may suggest dependence on a similar Hebrew source text.
Inner-Syriac corruption or dependence on a 1 These deliberate changes comprise both exegetical changes and changes related to the style of translation that has been adopted. The former affect the meaning of the text, the latter do not, yet they cannot be considered obligatory from the viewpoint of Syriac syntax. In this contribution, differences to the Hebrew text as represented by proto-mt that are viewed as intentional are all termed ‘exegetical’. 22 chapter two Hebrew source text different from the Masoretic text, however, is taken into consideration for a fair number of deviations.
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