Abbreviations of Bible Translations
Introduction
I. Etymological Explanation of Proper Names in the Hebrew Bible and
the History of Their Forms in Bible Translations
II. Transliteration or Translation of Biblical Proper Names in
Bible Translations
III. Transmission of Semitic Forms of Biblical Proper Names in
Greek and Latin Linguistic Traditions
1. Historical and Linguistic Factors of Forms of
Biblical Proper Names
2. Transliteration of Semitic Consonants into
Greek
3. Transliteration of Semitic Vowel Letters and
Vowel Signs into Greek and Latin
4. Transliteration from Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek
into Latin
5. Reasons for the Existence of Variant Forms of
Biblical Proper Names
6. General Conclusions
7. Comparative Expositions of the Forms of
Biblical Proper Names
This book explores the various transformations of biblical proper names. The basic phonetic relationship between Semitic languages on the one hand and non-Semitic languages, like Greek and Latin, on the other hand, is so complex that it was hardly possible to establish a unified tradition in writing biblical proper names within the Greek and Latin cultures.
Jože Krašovec is Professor of Old Testament in the Institute of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, at the University of Ljubljana and a full member of the European and of the Slovenian Academies of the Sciences and Arts
‘This book provides interesting insights into the tactics applied
by the early biblical translators...If this book is in fact
predictive of the scope handled in Krasovec's stated
project—particularly the compilation of a dictionary of biblical
proper names—our field has much to look forward to.'—Review of
Biblical Literature
The study of biblical proper names undertaken by Krašovec stems
from his work on the new Slovenian translation of the Bible
published in 1996. His philological work does not stop with the
Slovenian language though, but is extended to cover the treatment
of the proper names by all major European translations of the Bible
from ancient times to the present.
*The Biblical Annals*
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