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Sin, Iniquity, Wickedness, and Rebellion in the Peshitta to Isaiah and Jeremiah

Sin, Iniquity, Wickedness, and Rebellion in the Peshitta to Isaiah and Jeremiah <jats:sec> <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Peshitta is considered a fairly literal translation. However, the attitude of the translator (using the singular here for simplicity) of Isaiah and Jeremiah to his Hebrew Vorlage was complex: he almost always preserved the original message, but exercised literary initiative, selecting lexical equivalents sometimes inconsistently, sometimes with great precision, sometimes disrupting rhetorical structure, sometimes making additions to render opaque Hebrew clearly. He did not see his text as 'sacred' at any point, nor did later scribes who introduced further small additions and modifications. The range of Syriac vocabulary employed is wide: there is no evidence of poverty.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aramaic Studies Brill

Sin, Iniquity, Wickedness, and Rebellion in the Peshitta to Isaiah and Jeremiah

Greenberg, Gillian
Aramaic Studies , Volume 6 (2): 195 – Jan 1, 2008
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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1477-8351
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1745-5227
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10.1163/147783508X393048
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Abstract

<jats:sec> <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Peshitta is considered a fairly literal translation. However, the attitude of the translator (using the singular here for simplicity) of Isaiah and Jeremiah to his Hebrew Vorlage was complex: he almost always preserved the original message, but exercised literary initiative, selecting lexical equivalents sometimes inconsistently, sometimes with great precision, sometimes disrupting rhetorical structure, sometimes making additions to render opaque Hebrew clearly. He did not see his text as 'sacred' at any point, nor did later scribes who introduced further small additions and modifications. The range of Syriac vocabulary employed is wide: there is no evidence of poverty.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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Aramaic Studies – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: FREE TRANSLATION; SACRED; WIDE VOCABULARY; LITERALNESS; JEREMIAH; PESHITTA; SCRIBES; ISAIAH

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