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Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen (1917-2002) was a Finnish Septuagint scholar and the father of the translation-technical method in studying the nature of translations. The present volume upholds his work with studies related to the syntax of the Septuagint. It is impossible to describe the syntax of the Septuagint without researching the translation technique employed by the translators of the different biblical books; the characteristics of both the Hebrew and Greek languages need to be taken into consideration.
The topics in this volume include translation-technical methodology; case studies concerning the use of the definite article, preverbs, segmentation, the middle voice, and the translations of Hebrew stems in the Pentateuch; selected syntactical features in Isaiah and Jeremiah; the connection between the study of syntax and textual criticism, especially in Judges; and lexical distinction between near-synonymous words.
The volume concludes with six articles by Soisalon-Soininen, originally written in German and translated into English. These studies pertain to the use of the genitive absolute, renderings of the Hebrew construct state and the personal pronoun, interchangeability of prepositions, segmentation, and Hebraisms. These articles have lasting value as analyses of significant translation-syntactic phenomena and, together with Soisalon-Soininen's monographs, they crystallize his translation-technical method.
The volume paves way to a description of the syntax of the Septuagint that does justice to its nature as a translation.
About the author
Anneli Aejmelaeus ist emeritierte Professorin für Altes Testament und vorderasiatische Kultur und Literatur an der Universität Helsinki.Miika Tucker recently completed his doctorate in Theology with distinction at the University of Helsinki. He is a long-time member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, and the Finnish Exegetical Society. Miika is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, and he studies the textual history of the Book of Jeremiah. He is the editor of the forthcoming Jeremiah volumes in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta edition and The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition.Dr. Tuukka Kauhanen is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki.Dr. Hanna Vanonen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.Anneli Aejmelaeus ist Professorin für Altes Testament und vorderasiatische Kultur und Literatur an der Universität Helsinki.Kristin De Troyer ist Professorin für Altes Testament/Hebräische Bibel am St Mary's College, St Andrews.Wolfgang Kraus ist Professor em. für Neues Testament an der Universiät des Saarlands, Saarbrücken.Emanuel Tov is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
