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  title info:
    title: Hebrew wordplay and Septuagint translation technique in the fourth book of the Psalter
  name:
    name part: Backfish, Elizabeth H. P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This volume examines numerous Hebrew wordplays not identified and discussed in previous research, and the technique of the Septuagint translators, by offering another criterion of evaluation, essentially, their concern about the style of translating Hebrew into Greek. Elizabeth Backfish's study analyzes seventy-four wordplays employed by the Hebrew poets of Psalms 90-106, and how the Septuagint renders Hebrew wordplay in Greek. Backfish estimates that the Septuagint translators were able to render 31% of the Hebrew semantic and phonetic wordplays (twenty-four total), most of which required some sort of transformation, or change, to the text in order to function in Greek. After providing a thorough summary of research methods on wordplay, definitions and research methodology, Backfish summarizes all examples of wordplay within the Fourth Psalter, and concludes with examples of the wordplay's replication, similar rendition or textual variation in the Septuagint. Emphasising the creativity and ingenuity of the Septuagint translators' work in passages that commentators often too quickly identify as the results of scribal error or a variant Vorlage from the Masoretic text, Backfish shows how the aptitude and flexibility displayed in the translation technique also contributes to conversations in modern translation studies.
  table of contents: Research on wordplay within the Hebrew Bible -- Research on the Septuagint, translation technique, and its use of wordplay -- The study of wordplay in literary theory -- Definitions -- Research methodology -- Writing the right words : wordplay within book IV of the Hebrew Psalter -- Wordplay in Psalm 90 -- Wordplay in Psalm 91 -- Wordplay in Psalm 92 -- Wordplay in Psalm 93 -- Wordplay in Psalm 94 -- Wordplay in Psalm 95 -- Wordplay in Psalm 96 -- Wordplay in Psalm 97 -- Wordplay in Psalm 98-100 -- Wordplay in Psalm 101 -- Wordplay in Psalm 102 -- Wordplay in Psalm 103 -- Wordplay in Psalm 104 -- Wordplay in Psalm 105 -- Wordplay in Psalm 106 -- Summary of findings -- Conclusion -- LXX translation of wordplay in book IV of the Psalms : writing the right words form left to right -- Analysis of the LXX's translation technique of Hebrew wordplay -- Wordplays represented in the LXX -- LXX replicates the same wordplay -- LXX represents a similar wordplay -- Wordplays not represented in the LXX -- LXX renders the sense of the wordplay -- textual variations in the LXX translation of wordplay -- Conclusion -- Empirical findings -- Contributions of this study -- Contribution to wordplay studies -- Contribution to Hebrew exegesis -- Contribution to Septuagint studies -- Contribution to the theological interpretation of Psalms -- Contribution to communication theory -- Recommendations for further study.
  note: Elizabeth H. P. Backfish.
  note: Revised version of [the author's] PhD dissertation, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School--Acknowledgments.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-180) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible. Hebrew
      part name: Psalms, XC-CVI. Hebrew
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible. Hebrew
      part name: Psalms, XC-CVI. Hebrew
    topic: Versions
    topic: Masoretic text
    topic: Translating
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible. Greek
      part name: Psalms, XC-CVI. Greek
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible Greek
      part name: Psalms, XC-CVI. Greek
    topic: Septuagint
    topic: Translating
  subject:
    topic: Plays on words
    topic: Translating
  classification: BS1430.52 .B33 2019
  classification: 223/.2044
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 682
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Texts and versions of the Hebrew Bible ; 1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: T & T Clark library of biblical studies
  identifier: 9780567687104
  identifier: 0567687104
  identifier: 9780567689467
  identifier: 2019016122
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190410
    record change date: 20200420141349.0
    record identifier: in00004115309