The Text-Critical Utility of the Peshitta to Ezekiel in View of Recent Research
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Following recent studies demonstrating that the Peshitta to Ezekiel is largely a translation that was rendered at the level of semantic frames or the idiomatic level, the logical question to be asked from the point of view of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is whether such a translation would be useful at all within that discipline. Traditionally, a version that is considered ideal and useful for the textual criticism of the Bible is one whose translation technique is as literal as possible. Studying some difficult texts in the light of the idiomatic approach in pe shows that pe can still provide meaningful contribution to the text-critical study of the book of Ezekiel, though not in every instance. There are instances where the process of translation in pe could have made the base text difficult to retrace. pe can therefore be used in the study of Ezekiel, with some precautions.
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Mushayabasa, 2014.
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Mulder, p. 180.
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Cf. Brock, pp. 11-36.
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See Wevers, pp. 211-6.
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See Tov, 2012, pp. 116-117.
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Mushayabasa, p. 302.
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Cf. Cornill, p. 153.
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See among others, Tov, 1999, pp. 408-9, and Lilly, pp. 57-60.
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Cf. Brown, Driver and Briggs, 2000.
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See Sivan and Schniedewind, pp. 209-26. Alternatively, the לא could be read as an asseverative, leading to the translation, “There will indeed be in a little while, the building of houses”, the net meaning of which is in any case equivalent to taking the לא as introducing a rhetorical question.
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Driver, pp. 60-9.
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See Van Rooy, 2007, pp. 233-34. The phenomenon also appears to be common in a number of Old Testament Peshitta books as witnessed in Weitzman, 1999, pp. 23-4, and Greenberg, 2002, p. 37.
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See Elliger, 1984, at Ezek 16:22.
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Muraoka, pp. 67-8.
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The Text-Critical Utility of the Peshitta to Ezekiel in View of Recent Research
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Following recent studies demonstrating that the Peshitta to Ezekiel is largely a translation that was rendered at the level of semantic frames or the idiomatic level, the logical question to be asked from the point of view of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is whether such a translation would be useful at all within that discipline. Traditionally, a version that is considered ideal and useful for the textual criticism of the Bible is one whose translation technique is as literal as possible. Studying some difficult texts in the light of the idiomatic approach in pe shows that pe can still provide meaningful contribution to the text-critical study of the book of Ezekiel, though not in every instance. There are instances where the process of translation in pe could have made the base text difficult to retrace. pe can therefore be used in the study of Ezekiel, with some precautions.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 306 | 35 | 8 |
| Full Text Views | 219 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 67 | 4 | 1 |