Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira

A Comparative Linguistic and Literary Study

• Author(s): Willem Th. van Peursen,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 492
• ISBN_10: 9047423615
  ISBN_13: 9789047423614
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics , Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General , Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings , Religion / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings , Religion / Biblical Studies / General , Religion / General ,

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.