My dissertation is a study of the cultural status and evolving significance of The Thousand and One Nights in France. Since its first appearance in Europe with Antoine Galland's translation (1704-17), this collection of tales from the Middle East has been popular with European a…
"18" Result
Sort By:
The purpose of this research is to investigate the function of the participle in Heb 6:1–12 at the levels of grammar, discourse, syntax, theology, and the effects produced by verbal aspect theory. Hebrews 6:1–12 will be used as a case study. Scholars and students alike will bene…
Emilio Villa (1914-2003) was a poet, visual artist, translator, critic and Bible scholar. His poems encompass modern and ancient languages, including Milanese, Italian, French, English, Latin, Greek, Sumerian, and Akkadian. The present study seeks to address two major issues con…
In my dissertation, I compare translations of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into three languages: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The Merchant of Venice was chosen for this project because its translations are particularly demonstrative of the attempt to create national (mod…
This dissertation studies the Spanish translations of the Dialogues of Love (Dialoghi d'amore), written by Yehuda Abravanel (Leone Ebreo). First published in Rome in 1535, the Dialogues harmonized Neoplatonic concepts of love with biblical and kabbalistic teachings. Three transl…
This dissertation explores the political poetry of the modern Iraqi poet Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb in English translations. While there are certainly many other influential political poems of al-Sayyāb, I am interested in two of his most widely translated poems into English: The “Ra…
Among the translations of the Hebrew Bible which have appeared in the United States in the last half-century are three modern Jewish versions, each representing a distinctly different approach to translating, which are the subjects of this evaluation: Tanakh The Holy Scriptures:…
A consideration of conservative Christianity reveals that a theological storm rages among Evangelicals in general and independent Baptists in particular over the issue of modern Bible translations. This affects individual believers, local churches, and Christian organizations. T…
Exodus 34:29-35 contains an ambiguous Hebrew phrase that describes the peculiar condition of Moses' face after his encounter with God on Mt. Sinai. The iconographic tradition of Moses in religious art includes many depictions of him as "horned," yet the early exegetes described …
This project examines the translation of the biblical book of Deuteronomy into Greek, an undertaking set in 3rd century BCE Alexandria. Characterizing the various translations that make up the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Septuagint) is an important prerequisite to…
This dissertation examines late 19th- and early 20th-century Arabic literary texts on China to challenge the Eurocentric scholarly assumption that writers in the Nahda period drew their models of modernity solely from Europe. Surviving only in fragmented and unexplored archives,…
This thesis examines the effects of translators' stylistic choices on the function of literary dialectal dialogue (LDD) in the English translations of contemporary Saudi and Egyptian novels. The research aims to identify the procedures carried out by translators to deal with thi…
The Peshitta and Syro-Hexapla are two translations of the Old Testament into Syriac. The Peshitta is a translation From the Hebrew, received by a Syriac-speaking Jewish or Christian Community in the 1st or 2nd Century CE. The Syro-Hexapla is a translation from the Greek, made fo…
This dissertation attempts to discover the reason(s) for the worldwide interest in Saint Patrick of Ireland by focusing on the numerous translations of his two writings, the Confessio (The Confession of Saint Patrick) and the Epistola (The Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus). B…
Purpose: Reading plays a central role in the transmission, reception, and practice of Buddhism. This dissertation seeks to address a perceived gap in Buddhist studies by suggesting that reading constitutes a valid strategy of practice and a useful phenomenon to analyse Buddhist …
The Stowe Missal is one of the earliest surviving documents of the Early Irish church and is a key witness to the Early Irish liturgy, as well as one of the few manuscripts dating back to the Old Irish period to contain a number of continuous texts in the Irish language. This th…
The major aim in this research is to compare/contrast directive speech act sequences in selected Shakespearean plays (King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King John ) with their translated parallels in Arabic to determine if the social function of indirectness in the source …