Description: In the transmission we encounter various transformations of biblical proper names. The basic phonetic relationship between Semitic languages on the one hand and non-Semitic languages, like Greek and Latin, on the other hand, is so complex that it was hardly possible to establish a unified tradition in writing biblical proper names within the Greek and Latin cultures. Since the Greek and Latin alphabets are inadequate for transliteration of Semitic languages, authors of Greek and Latin Bibles were utter grammatical and cultural innovators. In Greek and Latin Bibles we note an almost embarrassing number of phonetic variants of proper names. A survey of ancient Greek and Latin Bible translations allows one to trace the boundary between the phonetic transliterations that are justified within Semitic, Greek, and Latin linguistic rules, and those forms that transgress linguistic rules.The forms of biblical proper names are much more stable and consistent in the Hebrew Bible than in Greek, Latin and other ancient Bible translations. The inexhaustible wealth of variant pronunciations of the same proper names in Greek and Latin translations indicate that Greek and Latin translators and copyists were in general not fluent in Hebrew and did therefore not have sufficient support in a living Hebrew phonetic context. This state affects personal names of rare use to a far greater extent than the geographical names, whose forms are expressed in the oral tradition by a larger circle of the population.
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Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines
Book Title: The Transformation Of Biblical Proper Names
Publication Name: Transformation of Biblical Proper Names
Publisher: T & T Clark
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject: Biblical Référence / General, Hebrew, Linguistics / Semantics, Biblical Référence / Language Study, Biblical Biography / General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Publication Year: 2010
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.4 in
Author: Joze Krasovec
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Item Width: 6.1 in
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
