Steven D. Fraade (Connecticut Yale University)

Gebundenes Buch

Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism

Beschreibung

Explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism, and the deep and dialectical relationship between them. It present ancient texts, in Hebrew and Aramaic, but also Greek, that profoundly plumb the inner dynamics and pedagogical-social implications of this fundamental and generative pairing.

Autor

Steven D. Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor Emeritus of the History of Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University. His scholarship has been recognized through many academic honors, including fellowships and funding from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among others.  He is the author of four books including From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy (1991), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781009203715
• ISBN-10: 1009203711
• Artikelnr.: 67325807