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Rabbis, Language and Translation in Late Antiquity
Willem F. Smelik
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Description for Rabbis, Language and Translation in Late Antiquity
hardcover. Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity. Num Pages: 591 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 228 x 37. Weight in Grams: 994.
Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late Antiquity was a border area where Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic dialects were all in common use. This study analyses the way scriptural translation was perceived and practised by the rabbinic movement in this multilingual world. Drawing on a wide range of classical rabbinic sources, including unused manuscript materials, Willem F. Smelik traces developments in rabbinic thought and argues that foreign languages were deemed highly valuable for the lexical and semantic light they shed on the meanings ... Read more
Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late Antiquity was a border area where Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic dialects were all in common use. This study analyses the way scriptural translation was perceived and practised by the rabbinic movement in this multilingual world. Drawing on a wide range of classical rabbinic sources, including unused manuscript materials, Willem F. Smelik traces developments in rabbinic thought and argues that foreign languages were deemed highly valuable for the lexical and semantic light they shed on the meanings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
591
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107026216
SKU
V9781107026216
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About Willem F. Smelik
Willem F. Smelik teaches in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He is the author of The Targum of Judges (1995).
Reviews for Rabbis, Language and Translation in Late Antiquity
'A very extensive bibliography and two indices top off the book, which is bound to become the standard work on the rabbinic view on languages and translations.' Lieve Teugels, Journal for the Study of Judaism