Title Rabbis, language and translation in late antiquity / Willem F. Smelik.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (xxii, 571 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Multilingualism and the holy tongue. The family of languages -- The holy tongue -- The multilingual context of language selection -- The locus of translation. The terminology of translation -- Chanting the scriptures -- Between Holy Writ and Oral Tora -- Ashurit and alphabet -- Rabbis and translation. Targum in Talmud -- The faces of Aquila.
Summary	Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Rabbinical literature -- Translating.
	Rabbinical literature -- Translating.
	Rabbinical literature.
	Rabbinical literature -- Translations.
	Translations.
	Jews -- Languages -- History.
	Jews -- Languages.
	History.
	Jews -- History -- 70-638.
	Jews.
Chronological Term	70-638
Subject	Translating and interpreting -- History -- To 1500.
	Translating and interpreting.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Translations.
Other Form:	Print version: Smelik, Willem F. Rabbis, language and translation in late antiquity 9781107026216 (OCoLC)863944406
ISBN	9781461953555 (electronic book)
	1461953553 (electronic book)
	9781139206969 (electronic book)
	1139206966 (electronic book)
	9781107464926
	1107464927
	1107026210
	9781107026216

Title Rabbis, language and translation in late antiquity / Willem F. Smelik.

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