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The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names (Paperback)
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The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names (Paperback)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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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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