Anwar Tjen

On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Translation Syntax

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Produktbeschreibung

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax. It takes seriously into account the double character of Septuagintal Greek, both as a translation from Hebrew and as vernacular Greek. Methodologically, the underlying Hebrew is taken as the point of departure in close comparison with the resultant translation, with the purpose of examining major features in the translators? handling of this complex construction. These include the rendering of verbal and non-verbal forms in the protasis and apodosis, the question of sense-division between the two constituent clauses, the influence of genre or discourse type and interference from the underlying form or structure. Detailed analyses of the resultant translation displays features that are natural Greek, on the one hand, and features that betray the character of "translation-language", on the other hand, owing to interference from the source text. The latter manifests itself most conspicuously in renderings that are ungrammatical or unnatural, and, in a more subtle way, through equivalents which are grammatically acceptable but occur with a strikingly high frequency in the Septuagint as compared with original Greek compositions contemporary with the Septuagint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567074836
• Artikelnr.: 48422536

Autorenporträt

Dr. Anwar Tjen is an ordained Lutheran minister of Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia (GKPI) and is Translation Consultant of the Indonesia Bible Society, currently in charge of the following major revisions: Indonesian Standard Version, Toba Batak Bible and Javanese Old Testament.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
1. Studying LXX conditionals: methodology and scope
2. Overview of previous studies on LXX conditionals
3. A note on the critical texts
4. Organization of this study
CHAPTER 1 - HEBREW CONDITIONALS: AN OVERVIEW
1. Relative order of protasis-apodosis
2. Marking of conditionality
3. Unmarked conditionals
4. Ellipsis in conditional constructions
5. Verb forms and taxonomy of conditionals: temporal reference, degree of
certainty, modality
CHAPTER 2 - GREEK CONDITIONALS: AN OVERVIEW
1. Relative order of protasis-apodosis
2. Marking of conditionality
3. Formal features of Greek conditional constructions
4. Major change in Koine: the decline of the optative
5. Classification and interpretation of Greek conditionals
CHAPTER 3 - IDENTIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF HEBREW CONSTRUCTIONS AS
CONDITIONALS IN THE LXX
1. Introductory markers in overtly marked conditionals
2. Constructions introduced by £' and yk
3. Constructions introduced by other markers
4. Unmarked constructions rendered as conditionals
5. Some cases involving orthographic or textual differences
6. Summary
CHAPTER 4 - COLLOCATIONAL FEATURES IN THE LXX RENDERING OF HEBREW
CONDITIONAL SYNTAGMS: YIQTOL-weQATAL
1. Distribution of the renderings
2. The prevalent equivalent: ??n + subjunctive
3. E¿ + indicative
4. Non-finite equivalents
5. Cases containing pluses or minuses in the LXX
6. WeQATALs interpreted as paratactic conditionals
7. WeQATAL and peculiar cases of sense-division
8. Summary
CHAPTER 5 - COLLOCATIONAL FEATURES IN THE LXX RENDERING OF CONDITIONAL
SYNTAGMS: QATAL, wayYIQTOL, QOTEL AND OTHER FORMS
1. Conditional syntagms with QATAL