In Revelation 13:18 the occurrence of the number 616 in P115 has been taken as offering support to the view that the number refers to Nero. Here, an alternative or perhaps additional explanation of the number 616 is given by the suggestion that this number visually mimics designations of Jesus.
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"P115 and the Number of the Beast"
In Revelation 13:18 the occurrence of the number 616 in P115 has been taken as offering support to the view that the number refers to Nero. Here, an alternative or perhaps additional explanation of the number 616 is given by the suggestion that this number visually mimics designations of Jesus.
"On the Representation of Sahidic within the Apparatus of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece"
I consider a limited number of examples of the representation of Sahidic Coptic in the apparatus of the Greek New Testament, concluding that sometimes the editors have been too ready to suppose that a particular Greek was the basis for the Sahidic translation.
"The Linguistic Background to Jesus` Dereliction Cry (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34)"
The forms of the dereliction cry in Matthew and Mark ('My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?') are different. This article proposes a historical model that can account for the precise differences in the Aramaic wording between the two gospels and attribute the differences to eyewitness report.
Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels
There has been a longstanding assumption by scholars that the Vorlage or text behind a translation can be reconstructed easily and in the case of the Syriac gospels scholars have been very quick to conclude that a particular form of Greek wording has stood behind the Syriac text even though they have not investigated systematically precisely how the translation deals with its Vorlage. This practice has led to a number of incorrect notes concerning the Vorlage of the Syriac being present in the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece. Here, for the first time, many phenomena are investigated in a systmatic way. Investigations are made of various phenomena, including the use of personal proper nouns, pronominal objects, particles, and formulae introducing speech. It is shown that a better appreciation of the way a translation was made can lead to significantly different conclusions as regards the textual support for specific readings.
"A Study on Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah"
I present an extensive critical view of Gillian Greenberg, Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah (Leiden: Brill, 2002). The particular area of focus of my critique is on Greenberg's attempt to reconstruct a Vorlage to the Peshitta of Jeremiah which is seen as an intermediate stage between the text of the LXX and the Masoretes.
"Q Review"
A review of the Critical Edition of Q and related publications. This includes a lengthy analysis of Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), including an investigation into one of Casey's favourite examples of alleged Aramaic mistranslation in the Gospels.
"The Difference between the Roots mlt and plt"
People have tended to assume that the roots MLT and PLT are essentially synonyms, and that their distribution is complementary. I demonstrate here that MLT focusses much more on escape from a horizon of danger, and PLT much more on the state of safety reached.
"Bread and the Peshitta in Matthew 16:11-12 and 12:4"
Scholars have tended to take inadequate notice of the patterns of the target language when considering ancient translations. Here I give examples of where the Nestle-Aland 27th edition of the Greek New Testament wrongly attributes readings to the Syriac (Peshitta) of Matthew by assuming that the plural of the Greek word for 'bread' will be represented by a plural in Syriac. However, Syriac has a natural preference for the singular.
Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings
This monograph looks at syntax and translation technique in the Peshitta of 1 Kings. The two most extensive chapters are on the various ways of expressing the genitive and on the object marker, but a number of different phenomena are discussed, including the word kl 'all', the conjunction 'and', verb tense equivalences between Hebrew and Syriac, asyndeton, speech formulae, reference to the address in introductions to speech, infinitives, prepositions, demonstratives, and the word commonly rendered 'behold'. I think it contains lots of exciting new discoveries!
"`According to all` in MT and the Peshitta"
The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia wrongly assumes that the Hebrew phrase k 'according to' followed by kl 'all' ought to be translated literally in the Syriac and frequently refers to the Syriac as if it was based on a variant Hebrew text. In fact when the Syriac is investigated it appears that it does not go back to a variant Hebrew text, but that the Syriac repeatedly avoids representing the phrase literally, preferring a number of forms of paraphrase to do so.
"TMR in 1 Kings ix 18"
It is often assumed that Kings and Chronicles are more different than they need to be. I consider 1 Kings 9:18 and demonstrate that the Kethiv reading TMR need not be read as Tamar, but could be a variant spelling of the name Tadmor.
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