Reading between the lines
Subtitle: towards an assessment of the interlinear paradigm for Septuagint studies.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Description: This thesis provides the conceptual and methodological groundwork for a principled assessment of the interlinear paradigm for Septuagint Studies. The paradigm is an informal theory purporting to describe the model of translation underlying much of the Septuagint corpus.Finally, the implications of these findings for the academic discipline of Septuagint Studies are considered. Interlinear translation is placed in its historical context. Next, the relevance of the paradigm to the study of Septuagintal Greek is taken up. There follows a descriptive analysis of a selection from Greek Job, a text characterized by its departure from interlinearity. Finally, hermeneutic issues are discussed in light of the paradigm with an example taken from the Greek Psalter.First, a descriptive-explanatory framework is established. Drawing upon the theoretical work of Gideon Toury (DTS), translation is viewed as part of a socio-cultural system. The task of analysis is to identify the concept of equivalence underlying the production of specific texts. It is axiomatic that this concept will be determined by the prospective function of the translation, which places constraints on its verbal makeup, thereby locating it on a continuum of relative acceptability within the target system.Second, the paradigm is delineated within the framework DTS. On the assumption of interlinearity, (1) the verbal makeup of the typical Septuagint translation exhibits a low level of target acceptability; (2) a fact attributable to a specific concept of equivalency; (3) which concept is akin to that underlying the production of bilingual school texts in antiquity and typified in the biblical version of Aquila.Third, selected texts from the Septuagint corpus are analysed with a view to determining their family resemblance to the Aquilanic version. A typology is proposed. While the concept of equivalency underlying Aquila differentiates it from the non-Kaige version of Reigns, a strong family resemblance obtains between Aquila and Kaige. Significantly, this resemblance is seen to extend to selections from the Greek Psalter and Genesis. To the extent that the texts here analyzed are representative, the interlinear paradigm would appear to offer a valid way of conceptualizing the translations as facts of the culture that produced them.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3679.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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