The shadow metaphors in ancient hebrew literature and their semitic and greek backgrounds

The semantic investigation of the figurative usage of ... within the Hebrew Bible has shown a transition from the positive meaning of protection to the negative meaning of transitoriness. The analysis of the Septuagint renderings has disclosed a special approach in handling such imagery: the transla...

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Veröffentlicht in:Henoch
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1. VerfasserIn: Vergari, Romina ca. 21. Jh. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Ed. Morcelliana 2019
In: Henoch
Jahr: 2019, Band: 41, Heft: 2, Seiten: 277-294
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Metapher / Bibel / Schatten / Hebräisch / Griechisch / Kontext / Übersetzung / Semantik / Schutz
RelBib Classification:HA Bibel
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Zusammenfassung:The semantic investigation of the figurative usage of ... within the Hebrew Bible has shown a transition from the positive meaning of protection to the negative meaning of transitoriness. The analysis of the Septuagint renderings has disclosed a special approach in handling such imagery: the translators refrained from using the obvious equivalent ... in those contexts involving the idea of protection as a social relation. The semantic variance registered both within the Ancient Hebrew texts and cross-linguistically in the Septuagint shows how language mirrors contrasting cultural speculations about the same natural phenomenon, which may overlap and replace one another over time and across different discourse traditions. The paper aims at setting these different cultural ideas in a larger framework; at inquiring how they could come about within the Ancient Hebrew literature; at investigating why the usage of ... may have caused semantic clash in Greek in the Septuagint translators' mind.
ISSN:0393-6805
Enthält:Enthalten in: Henoch