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Ausgabe:

Juni/2014

Spalte:

721–723

Kategorie:

Altes Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Wagner, J. Ross

Titel/Untertitel:

Reading the Sealed Book. Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013. XI, 295 S. = Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 88. Lw. EUR 95,00. ISBN 978-3-16-152557-5.

Rezensent:

Ronald L. Troxel

J. Ross Wagner notes recurring debates over whether study of the OG should focus on its text-linguistic character or on the relation-ship between the product and its source. The choice between these determines a scholar’s interpretation of the translation, but also tends to eclipse questions of the translation’s prospective function and the culturally shaped expectations that guided the translator.
W. reviews Boyd-Taylor’s application of DTS to translations as diverse as Aquila – the prototype for an interlinear translation model – and Job, which aims »to produce an acceptable translation at the linguistic, textual and literary levels of the target system« (27). Observing that OG-Isaiah stands closer to Job than Aquila, W. sets out to describe its constitutive ...


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