The Slavonic Book of Esther : text, lexicon, linguistic analysis, problems of translation / Horace G. Lunt, Moshe Taube.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lunt, Horace G. (Horace Gray), 1918-2010.

Contributor:

Taube, Moshe.

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Series:

Harvard series in Ukrainian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Esther--Criticism, Textual.

Bible.

Bible. Esther--Church Slavic--Versions.

Bible. Esther.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

x, 311 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Slov'i͡ansʹka Knyha "Esfiry"

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, [1998]

Summary:

The Old Testament Book of Esther in Slavonic translation is known from East Slavic manuscripts of the late 14th to the late 16th centuries. Working from the Masoretic Hebrew texts and Greek translations, Horace Lunt and Moshe Taube examine textological clues to the circumstances of Esther's translation, sources, and redactions. This study creates a solid basis from which scholars can now discuss the particulars of this important translation, the nature of East Slavic biblical translating activity, and the relationship of old East Slavic bookmen to Hebrew and Greek. This book will be of interest to philologists and cultural religious historians alike.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index.

Contains:

Bible. Esther. Church Slavic. 1998.

ISBN:

0916458806

OCLC:

60163757