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These Schweich Lectures tackle the origin, history, and character
of the Ethiopic translation of the Old Testament. This version is
of fundamental importance both in terms of the influence it has
exerted on Ethiopian life and culture, and as one of the daughter
versions of the Greek Old Testament yet much remains unknown or
uncertain about it Professor Knibb argues that, notwithstanding the
criticisms that have been made of it, the traditional view of the
history of the Ethiopic version translation from the Septuagint in
the fifth-sixth century, revision on the basis of the Syriac-based
Arabic texts in the fourteenth century, and a further revision in
the fifteenth or sixteenth century on the basis of the Hebrew is
broadly correct, but that this view is in need of development and
refinement in many details. The majority of the book is devoted to
a study of the mode of translation, to translation technique. There
is a discussion of general aspects of the translation and
syntactical issues, and the question of consistency and diversity
in the translation-equivalents that are used is also addressed.
Many of these issues are of general relevance to other ancient
Bible translations. This book is intended for scholars and students
of literature and social sciences.
Volume 94 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 10
British Academy lectures and 21 obituaries of Fellows of the
British Academy. This book is intended for scholars and students of
literature, history, and archaeology.
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