The Legacy of Soisalon-Soininen

Towards a Syntax of Septuagint Greek

Tuukka Kauhanen, Hanna Vanonen, Tuukka Kauhanen, Hanna Vanonen, Anneli Aejmelaeus, Kristin De Troyer, Wolfgang Kraus, Emanuel Tov

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783525564875
• eBook ISBN: 9783647564876
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen (1917–2002) was a Finnish Septuagint scholar and the father of the translation-technical method in studying the nature of translations. The present volume upholds his work with studies related to the syntax of the Septuagint. It is impossible to describe the syntax of the Septuagint without researching the translation technique employed by the translators of the different biblical books; the characteristics of both the Hebrew and Greek languages need to be taken into consideration. The topics in this volume include translation-technical methodology; case studies concerning the use of the definite article, preverbs, segmentation, the middle voice, and the translations of Hebrew stems in the Pentateuch; selected syntactical features in Isaiah and Jeremiah; the connection between the study of syntax and textual criticism, especially in Judges; and lexical distinction between near-synonymous words. The volume concludes with six articles by Soisalon-Soininen, originally written in German and translated into English. These studies pertain to the use of the genitive absolute, renderings of the Hebrew construct state and the personal pronoun, interchangeability of prepositions, segmentation, and Hebraisms. These articles have lasting value as analyses of significant translation-syntactic phenomena and, together with Soisalon-Soininen's monographs, they crystallize his translation-technical method. The volume paves way to a description of the syntax of the Septuagint that does justice to its nature as a translation.

Table of contents

• The Legacy of Soisalon-Soininen
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• John A.L. Lee: Back to the Question of Greek Idiom
• Seppo Sipilä: Soisalon-Soininen Meets Grice
• Raija Sollamo: The Usage of the Article with Nouns Defined by a Nominal or Pronominal Genitive in LXX Genesis
• Jan Joosten: Grammar and Style in the Septuagint: On Some Uses of Preverbs
• Theo A.W. van der Louw: The Dynamics of Segmentation in the Greek Pentateuch
• Anssi Voitila: Middle Voice as Depiction of Subject’s Dominion in the Greek Pentateuch
• Patrick Pouchelle: Did the Translators of the Pentateuch Differentiate the Piel from the Qal?
• Philippe Le Moigne: Une tournure syntaxique fréquente en Ésaïe-LXX
• Miika Tucker: The Translations of Infinitives in Septuagint Jeremiah
• Anneli Aejmelaeus: Translation Technique and the Recensions
• José Manuel Cañas Reíllo: Recensions, Textual Groups, and Vocabulary Differentiation in LXX-Judges
• William A. Ross: Some Aspects of Παιδάριον and Νεανίσκος in Ptolemaic Egypt
• Srećko Koralija: παράδεισος as/and κῆπος
• 4. Conclusion
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: The Use of the Genitive Absolute in the Septuagint
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: A Palette of Renderings for the Hebrew Construct State Relation in the Greek Pentateuch
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: The Alleged Interchangeability of ἐν and εἰς in the Septuagint
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: Segmentation in the Greek Pentateuch
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: The Rendering of the Hebrew Personal Pronoun as Subject in the Greek Pentateuch
• Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen: Back to the Question of Hebraisms
• Bibliography
• Indexes