RT Article
T1 Translation Universals and Polygenesis: Implications for Textual Criticism
JF The Bible translator
VO 65
IS 3
SP 292
OP 307
A1 Tully, Eric J.
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1758064366
AB As translated texts, the ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible represent a particular challenge in textual criticism. The translator stands as a mediator between the Hebrew source text which is our primary interest and the extant translated text which we have before us. Therefore, before we can use an ancient translation as a witness to the Hebrew text, we must first discern whether a given reading represents its Hebrew source or whether it was created in the translation process. When two translators independently create the same translation shift in the same text segment, this is called “polygenesis.” In this article I argue that the search in Translation Studies for so-called “universals” can inform our understanding and expectation of polygenesis in ancient versions of the Bible.
K1 Hosea
K1 Peshitta
K1 Septuagint
K1 Targum
K1 Translator
K1 Vorlage
K1 Explicitation
K1 polygenesis
K1 translation shift
DO 10.1177/2051677014553534