In the Shadow of the Author

Contemporary Approaches in Translation, Lexicography and Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Lisa Agaiby, Charbel El-Khaissi & Godwin Mushayabasa Mhuriyashe

For centuries, scholars have approached ancient Hebrew and Syriac languages in an effort to better understand the voices of their authors and situate their writing in their appropriate historical and cultural contexts. In the Shadow of the Author continues this enduring practice by sharing contemporary approaches to uncovering meaning in historical texts from a linguistic perspective and with special emphasis on translation technique and methods in lexicography and linguistic analysis.

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Series: Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages17

Publication Date: Jun 30,2025

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

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Page Count: 360

Languages: English

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	Contributor	Biography
	Lisa Agaiby	Lisa Agaiby is Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity, Australia. She is currently leading a project to digitize and catalogue a collection of Coptic, Syriac, Arabic and Ge’ez manuscripts at the Coptic monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea in Egypt.
	Charbel El-Khaissi	Charbel El-Khaissi holds a PhD from the Australian National University. He is a computational linguist with research interests in syntactic theory, linguistic methodology, and language change. He has served as a policy adviser in the Australian Government and is a software developer for global technology companies.
	Godwin Mhuriyashe	Godwin Mushayabasa is Senior Lecturer at the North-West University, South Africa, where he lectures Semitic Languages, including Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, and Syriac (Peshitta studies). His research focus is currently on philological and semantics studies in the Peshitta of Ezekiel and includes cognitive linguistics approaches.

Editors and Contributors to This Volume ................................. ix
Abbreviations .......................................................................... xi
Introduction ...........................................................................xvii
BIBLICAL HEBREW LINGUISTICS ..................................................... 1
Chapter 1. Moving on from the Law of Continuous Dichotomy ... 3
Sophia L. Pitcher
Chapter 2. Negated Conjunction in Biblical Hebrew: A
Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Analysis ................... 55
Jesse Scheumann
Chapter 3. Variations in Order in Topic-Comment Constructions
with 87 ........................................................................... אַיןִ
Stephen H. Levinsohn
Chapter 4. Space and Time in Different Discourse Modes of
Biblical Hebrew ............................................................. 107
Mats Eskhult
SYRIAC DIGITAL HUMANITIES ................................................... 133
Chapter 5. Syriac Lexicography between Information Science
and Linguistics: Using ColibriCore to Identify Translation
Divergence .................................................................... 135
Mathias Coeckelbergs and Willem Th. van Peursen
Chapter 6. Reflections on Syriac in the Digital Humanities:
Digitisation, Corpora and POS Tagging .......................... 167
Charbel El-Khaissi
Chapter 7. Syriac Terms for Roman Institutions: An Exercise
in Syriac Lexicography and the Digital Humanities ........ 201
James Wolfe
DYNAMICS OF TRANSLATION ..................................................... 243
Chapter 8. Peshitta Deuteronomy as a Reader-Oriented Translation
............................................................................ 245
Jerome A. Lund
Chapter 9. The Peshitta’s Rendering of the Numeruswechsel in
Deuteronomy ................................................................ 267
Logan S. Copley
Chapter 10. How the Paratextual Features of Manuscripts Grow
Over Time. The Exceptional Wealth of the Syriac Harklean
Tradition ........................................................................303
Piotr Jutkiewicz
Index .................................................................................... 331
Modern Authors ............................................................ 331
Primary Sources ............................................................ 337

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In the Shadow of the Author

Contemporary Approaches in Translation, Lexicography and Linguistic Analysis