The Effect of Etymology on the Rendering of the Divine Epithet<i>(El) Shaddai</i>in the Peshitta VersionJournal for SemiticsSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9SQ629A5/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.GodwinMushayabasaThe Effect of Etymology on the Rendering of the Divine Epithet<i>(El) Shaddai</i>in the Peshitta Versionhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9SQ629A5https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9SQ629A5https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9SQ629A5Journal for Semitics19:1201019-35While researchers have performed
comprehensive studies on the possible original meaning of such divine epithets
as<i>(El) Shaddai</i>in the Hebrew Bible, little has yet
been done to find out their manner and reason of treatment in the ancient
translations. Of particular interest is the treatment of the divine epithet<i>(El) Shaddai</i>in the Peshitta. This epithet
appears 48 times in the Hebrew Bible but is rendered in at least seven different
ways in the Peshitta. Following a detailed survey of the translation of this
epithet in the Peshitta, the possibility that the Peshitta translators used
etymology to try to find the meaning of the divine epithet is proposed. From a
text-critical analysis of the epithet, it becomes apparent that etymologising
may have indirectly played an important role in the various ways in which the
epithet was rendered in the Peshitta.
Mushayabasa, Godwin. “The Effect of Etymology on the Rendering of the Divine Epithet(El) Shaddaiin the Peshitta Version.” Journal for Semitics 19:1 (2010): 19–35.
Godwin Mushayabasa, The Effect of Etymology on the Rendering of the Divine Epithet(El) Shaddaiin the Peshitta Version,” Journal for Semitics 19:1 (2010): 19–35.God's nameOld TestamentPeshitta OT