1,721,000 research outputs found
Rewriting David and Goliath?
Get PDFThe well-known debate about the different versions of the story of David and Goliath has mainly revolved around the question which one, the shorter version of the Septuagint or the longer one of the Masoretic Text, should be considered to be the more original. The view that preference should be given to the shorter form is gradually gaining ground, and that is also the starting point for my presentation. The question I would like to address is: What is the origin of the expansions of the MT? It has been suggested that they would have been part of an alternative story that circulated separately from the story in the First Book of Samuel (e.g. J. Lust). Another theory was proposed by A.G. Auld, together with C.Y.S. Ho, suggesting that the expansions were developed on the basis of the stories of Saul with the purpose of demonstrating how much more glorious David was than Saul. Auld and Ho maintain that there never existed an alternative story, and so far I agree with them. However, I would like to develop a more plausible explanation of the motives and editorial techniques behind the expansions.Peer reviewe
Destruksie in die romans van Etienne Leroux met besondere verwysing na 'Onse Hymie' : 'n literêre ondersoek
Get PDFThesis (MA)--PU for CHE, 1985The novels of Etienne Leroux are to a large
extent esoteric and one can find a key to
penetrate to the secret in an aspect which
often occurs in the novel viz. destruction.
The attentive reader will note that the
novelistic characters often become untidy and
rundown, that they are injured and that they
die. In the same way the space of the novel is
subject to destruction. The space is ravaged
by floods, by fire or by earthquakes.
Ultimately the most basic building block of
the novel, the word, is also subjected to an
onslaught and decay in various ways.
In this dissertation a brief overview is first
provided of all the novels of Leroux, but
emphasis was directed at the most recent
novels of Leroux, and then in particular Onse
Hymie.
There are also other aspects which indicate
decay. In this dissertation attention was also
directed at the other aspects embodying decay
and disintegration. A study was made of the
aspect of time in the novels. The burlesque
and the satirical are means of destruction and
were also studied. In the last instance the
literary genre, tragicomedy, was also
investigated with a view to destruction.
Were the novels of Leroux , however, to remain
rooted in destruction, then they would only be
embodying the contemporary spirit of an empty
commercialized civilization. In his novels,
however, there is also, in contradistinction to
destruction, an opposite pole of
reconstruction and revival, and therefore the
novels rise above the contemporary spirit of
materialism and a life of instant values. In
the novels a vision of eternity is detected
which offers hope for the reader.Master
The Septuagint and Oral Translation
Get PDFSpeaking of oral translation has not been popular in Septuagint research lately. The history of research knows one such theory, developed about a century ago by Paul Kahle, maintaining that there was no one written translation in the beginning but several different oral translations that were written down and eventually unified in a process comparable to the development of the Targums. This theory has been refuted, once and for all, a long time ago. Everything in the textual history of the Septuagint speaks for an Urtext, one translation text behind all the various developments in the textual history. But what was there before this Urtext? Several puzzles around the Septuagint find a natural solution, if an origin in oral translation is presupposed for the Torah or at least parts of it. The only source of arguments for a theory of this kind is the translation itself.Peer reviewe
- …
