Beschreibung:
Willem F. Smelik teaches in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He is the author of The Targum of Judges (1995).
Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity.
Introduction; Part I. Multilingualism and the Holy Tongue: 1. The family of languages; 2. The holy tongue; 3. The multilingual context of language selection; Part II. The Locus of Translation: 4. The terminology of translation; 5. Chanting the Scriptures; 6. Between holy writ and oral Torah; 7. Ashurit and alphabet; Part III. Rabbis and Translation: 8. Targum in Talmud; 9. The faces of Aquila; Conclusion.