new book on Esther from Harvard

[Robert DeLossa]

New Book Announcement
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications

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The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, Problems
of Translation.

Horace G. Lunt and Moshe Taube

The Old Testament Book of Esther in Slavonic Translation is known from East
Slavic manuscripts of the late fourteenth to late sixteenth centuries.
Working from the Masoretic Hebrew texts and Greek translations, Lunt and
Taube examine textological clues to the circumstances of Esther's
translation, sources, and redactions. This study creates a solid basis from
which scholars can now discuss the particulars of this important
translation, the nature of East Slavic biblical translating activity, and
the relationship of old East Slavic bookmen to Hebrew and Greek. This book
will be of interest to philologists and cultural religious historians
alike. The edition contains a full redaction with variants, a word index,
grammatical analysis, verse-by-verse commentary, and discussion of
vocabulary of selected semantic fields, not only of the Book of Esther, but
of comparable texts.

324 pp., illus.; ISBN 0-916458-80-6 (hardcover) LC 98-19993. $39.95.
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies.

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