Translation and style in the old Greek Psalter : what pleases Israel's God /

"While some describe the Greek Psalter as a "slavish" or "interlinear" translation with "dreadfully poor poetry," how would its original audience have described it? Positioning the translation within the developing corpus of Jewish-Greek literature, Jones analyzes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown Jones, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Septuagint commentary series ; 1.
Subjects:
Bible. > Psalms. > Greek > Versions > Septuagint > Translating.
Bible. > Psalms. > Greek > Versions > Septuagint > Language, style.
Bible. > Psalms. > Greek > Versions > Septuagint > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Psalms
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Dreadfully poor poetry" : style in the Greek Psalter
  • 2. "True eloquence" : literary style and the Greek Psalter
  • 3. Psalm 8 : "What is humanity?"
  • 4. Psalm 46 (47) : "Make music to our God"
  • 5. Psalm 110 (111) : "is righteousness endures forever and ever
  • 6. What pleases Israel's God : translating the Psalms
  • Appendix 1: Greek stylistic features and terminology
  • Appendix 2 : Stylistic features in Demetrius.

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