Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel

ISBN-13: 9781009203715 / Angielski

Steven D. Fraade

Opis

Explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism, and the deep and dialectical relationship between them. It present ancient texts, in Hebrew and Aramaic, but also Greek, that profoundly plumb the inner dynamics and pedagogical-social implications of this fundamental and generative pairing.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: multilingualism in the neighborhood; 2. Before Babel; 3. Seventy languages (and translations) for seventy nations; 4. Ezra the scribe and the origins of Targum; 5. Out of the fire and into the wall; 6. 'Reading leads to translation' whether public or private; 7. Be careful what you wish for; 8. Afterword.