| Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira: A Comparative Linguistic and Literary Study Contributor(s): Van Peursen, Willem Th (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004163948 ISBN-13: 9789004163942 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - History - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General |
| Dewey: 229.4 |
| Series: Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.57" W x 9.7" (2.06 lbs) 473 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a traditional philological analysis, incorporating matters of text-historical interest and translation technique, and also the results of a computational linguistic analysis of phrases, clauses and texts. It arrives at new linguistic insights, including a proposal for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix. The book also addresses the fundamentally different way in which a text is approached in a computer-assisted analysis compared with the way in which this is done in traditional philological approaches. It demonstrates how the computer-assisted analysis can fruitfully shed light on or supplement traditional philological research. |