A Study on Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah

Author: Williams, P.J.

Source: Aramaic Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, 2003 , pp. 289-298(10)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Our understanding of the translation technique of the Peshitta of Jeremiah has been considerably advanced through a recent monograph by Gillian Greenberg. This proposed that the Peshitta of Jeremiah bears witness to a Hebrew text shorter than the Masoretic Text and that the Masoretic Text contains redactional expansions subsequent to the translation of the Peshitta. Some of the evidence used to support these conclusions is questioned here, and explanations differing from those of Greenberg are proposed for a number of other passages in Jeremiah.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/000000003780492610

Affiliations: 1: Tyndale House, Cambridge

Publication date: 2003-09-01