An important theme in medieval intellectual history was the attempt by exegetes from the 12th century onward to reconcile and integrate the new information coming from Greek authors, whose writings were translated and sometimes interpreted by the Arabs, with the body of culture …
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St. Jerome wrote his Vulgate translation from the Hebrew under considerable duress. Early Church figures such as Justin Martyr, Pseudo-Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Epiphani…
The emergence of a critical edition of Peshitta Proverbs and the methodological inadequacy of the former studies provide reasons for a new investigation of the Peshitta Proverbs translation. My method of examining the translation is to describe a translation act using two dimens…
The Books of Chilam Balam are a series of manuscripts produced in Yucatecan Maya in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries that previously were believed to record information on the precolonial Maya belief system. However, much of the information contained therein stems from Eu…
This dissertation deals with the Septuagint's translation of the verbs of Chronicles. It slices through two diachronic developments: the development of the Hebrew verbal system and the trend towards a more literal translation of the Bible. Firstly, the way the translator of Chro…
New words and phrases are being introduced in news stories on a daily basis in the form of personal names, organizations, locations, temporal phrases, etc. Such phrases are referred to as named-entity phrases in the literature. While named-entity phrases can often be identified …
The present study investigates the nature and causes of semantic and cultural losses occurring in translations of selected literary texts from Arabic to English. Previous research showed that the losses resulted mainly from the lack of equivalence between the source text and the…
This study includes four sections: (1) an introduction to the literary, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Lope de Vega's narrative poem La hermosura de Angélica, written between 1588 and 1602, when it was published for the first time; (2) an edition of the text based o…
This thesis examines the reception and translation relationships between Hebrew and Spanish in the sixteenth century. It focuses on Zarfati's reception of La Celestina, the fragment of Guevara's Relox de príncipes translated in Shevet Yehudah and Yoseph Ha-Kohen's translation of…
Asceticism, anti-Jewish polemic, and an extensive use of Old Testament are three prominent feature of the Demonstrations of Aphrahat that can be brought together by an examination of the author's concept of divine Law. While many scholars have studied these areas in isolation, t…
The earliest Greek translation of the book of Job, called the Old Greek (late 2nd century B.C.E.), is fascinating because it exhibits extensive divergences from modern translations of the book. It is an exceedingly free translation in which the translator exhibits a willingness …
In the sixteenth century when Francis I the humanist king and benefactor of Leonardo da Vinci ruled France, one of the greatest Turkish Sultans, Suleyman the Magnificent, sat upon the throne of the Ottoman Empire. Although the two leaders were separated by religion, culture and …
This project examines forms in the Hebrew Bible whose meanings cause great difficulty for translation. Two methods, textual criticism and comparative Semitics, are used in concert to analyze thirty-nine of these forms, which analysis is used to determine what the best reading fo…
When comparing the state of the art of the didactics of translation at a university level to the skills demanded in a real professional environment, we have detected a double gap: first, the urgency to adapt technical translation teaching to the requirements of our knowledge soc…
The Catholic University of America's Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) owns a small Syriac manuscript which has not previously been studied. Incomplete at beginning and end, it contains six discourses (mêmrê) on the monastic way of life, part of a collection of “Ch…
This dissertation examines the translatable nature of energeia as a rhetorical feature in Psalm 22. Energeia was introduced into the discussion of rhetoric by Aristotle and defined by him as a strategy to ‘actualize’ or to ‘set before the eyes’ any given condition. Later, Sidney…
A systematic study of text-witnesses of Radak's commentary to Chronicles confirms the consensus that it is an early work, and reveals that Radak composed an even more rudimentary version than the one in our printed editions. This earlier version facilitates a particularly sharp …
This thesis is a transcription, translation, and annotation of a previously unpublished medieval Hebrew polemic, Machazik Emunah. In this text, the thirteenth century southern French rabbi, Mordechai ben Joseph, defends doctrines of Judaism against opposing Christian claims. The…
This is an analysis of the Pesh text of Hosea. This dissertation looks at the Syriac Peshitta text of Hosea in three ways: Text critically, exegetically, and in terms of translation technique. The first task is to determine what variations from the MT in the Peshitta of Hosea ar…