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By Gunnar Magnus Eidsvag, Gunnar Magnus Eidsveag

ISBN-10: 9004302719

ISBN-13: 9789004302716

The outdated Greek translation of Zechariah has no longer got a lot scholarly realization although it includes a number of popular passages. Questions referring to its starting place and personality as a translation have not begun to be handled in a finished demeanour. the current monograph goals to bridge this hole by means of providing new methodological views. The outdated Greek Translation of Zechariah makes an attempt to reply to questions about the outlook of the interpretation, and what faction of the Jewish society used to be drawn to translating this booklet into Greek. It argues that the translator had pro-Hasmonean sympathies.

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Another aspect of translation technique that is not part of Tov’s categories is how the translator dealt with Hebrew words that could be interpreted in several ways. The unpointed Hebrew text of the translator presented the translator with a variety of interpretative choices. In the next chapter I will explore this issue. CHAPTER 3 Visually Ambiguous Phenomena It is important to consider the state of the Hebrew text that the translator had as his source. The manuscripts the Septuagint translators had differed in several ways from the medieval Hebrew manuscripts upon which modern text editions are based.

4 James Barr, “The Typology of Literalism in Ancient Biblical Translations,” 277–325, MSU XV 11 (1979). 5 He did, however, not develop his ideas into a methodological approach. Barr’s article does not offer a method for assessing a translation unit, or for analyzing and comparing two or more translation units. ” One important aspect of Tov’s categories is that the first four can be used to produce statistics. 8 Tov’s approach is restricted to the description of the characteristics of literal translations.

In the following chapters I will attempt to do both. 18 In this way, it is possible to describe not only the broad overall picture, but also the peculiarities of this particular translator. I will use the following categories: 1 “Visually ambiguous phenomena” 2 “Representation of the constituents of Hebrew words by individual Greek equivalents” 3 “Word order” 4 “Quantitative representation” 5 “Lexical choices” Categories 2–4 are similar to Tov’s categories of the same name, while “Lexical choices” combines Tov’s categories “Internal consistency” and “Linguistic adequacy of lexical choices,” as well as treating an additional aspect of the 16 Palmer, “Tracing Paper,” 25.

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