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Phonological adaptation and the Biblical Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew reflexes of *i and *u KU Leuven
Benjamin Suchard treats the phenomenon of irregular reflexes of the vowels *i and *u in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic from a novel perspective of ‘phonological adaptation’, whereby speakers of one language adapted borrowed forms to their own phonology. This process is known to be irregular. The author makes an innovative suggestion that in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic, respectively, the irregular reflexes of the vowels *i and *u ...
Spinoza and biblical philology in the Dutch republic, 1660-1710 Universiteit Gent
This book investigates the biblical criticism of Spinoza from the perspective of the Dutch Reformed society in which the philosopher lived and worked. It focusses on philological investigation of the Bible: its words, its language, and the historical context in which it originated. The book charts contested issues of biblical philology in mainstream Dutch Calvinism, to determine whether Spinoza’s work on the Bible had any bearing on the Reformed ...
Biblical referential sources as employed by the translator when creating a translation parallel text of the Qur’an KU Leuven
This paper deals with the role of Biblical referential sources as employed by the translator when creating a translation parallel text of the Qur’an into languages that use similar Biblical referential sources. It also focuses on studying some fundamental terms and concepts within the monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), which are derived from Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic being three Semitic languages in which the earliest ...
Completeness – Balance: Revisiting the Biblical Hebrew Verb שׁלם from the Perspective of Cognitive Semantics KU Leuven
The Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלםis complicated. Convinced that every single word has but one basic meaning, biblical scholars have proposed a variety of basic meanings of שׁלם, ranging from 'completeness' to 'to pay, to be enough'. The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew even registers שׁלםas covering four homonymic verbs. The present dissertation treads on a different path. Following recent linguistic insights, we assume that a (polysemous) root has ...
Imagination and Hermeneutics: On Ricoeur's Notion of a Biblical Form of Imagination KU Leuven
The imagination rarely features in discussions engaging exegesis or as a topic for specialised study in academic Philosophy and Theology. This essay examines a lesser known study by Paul Ricoeur that treats the relationship between biblical texts, hermeneutics and the imagination. Through reciprocal processes of intertextuality and metaphorisation, so Ricoeur argues, the very textual nature of scriptures reverberate a form of imagination within ...
More Transformations in Biblical Studies: Changing Tendencies in Reading the Book of Qohelet KU Leuven
Judeo-Christian (Biblical) referential sources as employed by the translator when creating a translation parallel text of the Qur’an. KU Leuven
The paper discusses the use of the biblical framework as an important factor to consider in the translation process of the Qur’an into Western languages. The aim is to investigate how a Qur’an translation that meets the requirements of a proper unbiased translation be achieved on the one hand, and be one that is not alienating to the Western reader on the other.