An Amateur’s Professional Devotion: Elizabeth Smith’s Translation of the Book of Job

This essay focuses on an eccentric English translation of the Book of Job done in the late 18th century by amateur linguist and poet Elizabeth Smith. It describes how Smith learned to translate Hebrew from a peculiar grammar by polemical theologian John Parkhurst, and assesses how this grammar’s ide...

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Main Author: DeWispelare, Daniel (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2011
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-156
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