An English translation of The Legend of the Imams of Keriya.
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This study explores and analyzes late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman-Turkish novels which were shaped by the political and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire at the time, and reveals a pattern in the formation of male identities. The novel form was introduced to T…
The Sentences of the Syriac Menander is a document which appears in two separate Syriac manuscripts located at the British Library in London. The full version is found in Or. Add. 14.658, and a far shorter version, comprising only a small fraction of the full text, is found in O…
This dissertation presents a theory of teaching derived from the production and reception of translations, with a particular focus on the neophyte. The neophyte is described as either an individual who through the process of literary translation deepens his or her understanding …
From Tradition to Brand examines the construction of a 'global' Korean culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through the imbrication of cultural production and information technologies. "Global Korea" seeks to transcend the geographic boundaries of the Republic of Ko…
This dissertation examines the way that three romances have been adapted from their source texts in non-Jewish European languages to suit their target Jewish audiences. It begins with a summary of the issues at stake in the study of such romances: namely, what does it mean to Ju…
Sexual health education has, and will continue to be, an issue that the international community confronts regularly. It has been recognized widely that sexual health is an important aspect of reproductive rights, as well psychological and physical well being. In Iran, the same c…
Repeated verses and lines occur with relative frequency in the Hebrew text of Proverbs. This study explores how those repetitions are translated in the Septuagint version. Translated repetitions provide unique insight into the decision making process of the translator because th…
This comprehensive examination of the Syriac Peshitta of Hosea (P-Hosea) is the first study of the Peshitta conducted via insights and methods from the discipline of Translation Studies. It uses in particular Andrew Chesterman's Causal Model and Gideon Toury's descriptive approa…
This dissertation examines the text of Joshua 3:1-5:1 by employing narratological and translation technique methods. Overall, it has been estimated, the Greek version of Joshua is 4-5% shorter than the MT. Most scholars would argue that the shorter version of LXX-Joshua reflects…
The document known as Anonymus dialogus cum Iudaeis (hereafter referred to as ADI), an originally Greek work, was previously known only in Georgian and Armenian translations. José H. Declerck found a twelfth or thirteenth century copy of the Greek original, which was composed in…
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 object of this study is to provide empirical validation for the hypothesis that during the process of the translation of Orhan Pamuk's novel Kara Kitap (1990) by Guneli Gun, a transformation of images has taken place, the nature of which is dependent on the strategic choices…
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…
Recently translation has emerged as a significant medium through which nations can recognize and understand each other, civilizations can assemble and communicate, and individuals can get an access to knowledge they have no other way to. In our global small world, translation re…
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 …
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…
Many theological scholars have contributed to the process of interpreting the Psalms. However, most of them have done so based upon pre-determined genre classified by taxonomical categories, the historical socio-religious setting, and assumed theological messages. While these fa…