TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Peter
TI  - Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004497283
AV  - BS1334.S94 
U1  - 222/.53043 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Collection of essays
KW  - I Kings (Book of the Bible)
KW  - Syntax
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The Peshitta is probably the earliest translation of the whole Old Testament into a Semitic idiom. It displays an impressive balance between fidelity to the structure and sense of the Hebrew original and sensitivity to the preferences of the receptor language. This book considers ten key topics in Syriac syntax and exhaustively considers their patterns as they occur in the Peshitta of 1 Kings. Old rules of grammar are refined, new rules formulated, and wider issues of translation method considered. This study is relevant to Syriac specialists, textual critics and biblical scholars alike. It argues that many features in the Peshitta that have previously been attributed to a translator's whim, or to a Vorlage varying from the Masoretic Text, are in fact determined by factors internal to Syriac
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004497283
ER  -